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To: Alighieri who wrote (154707)11/12/2002 4:08:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579718
 
Al, <Tench and Ray were making a humanitarian argument>

When did I say this? You totally misunderstood my "humane" line.

Calm down.

Tenchusatsu



To: Alighieri who wrote (154707)11/12/2002 4:13:20 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579718
 
RE:"Tench and Ray were making a humanitarian argument (go make Iraqi lives better, or something like it)."

That's the standard arguement when you just want to go in a kick some arse. Mostly baloney but the public bites.

RE:"You are clear that it's money and phuck the lives it takes to go serve its interests. What a set of ideologies. One is completely phoney, the other is distastefully honest."

It's not really the money per se, IMHO. What is it is that if you're going in anyway, do it right. Don't do it half-arsed and end up having to "pay" more later.
What you may fail to realize is that we are "at war" right. No amount of "nice, pretty please" etc. is going to change that. These middle east countries all have an agenda and it isn't neceesarily in our best interest.



To: Alighieri who wrote (154707)11/12/2002 4:27:14 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579718
 
You are clear that it's money and phuck the lives it takes to go serve its interests. What a set of ideologies. One is completely phoney, the other is distastefully honest

I do think it is great we can (a) serve our own interests (which even YOU have said is a prerequisite for going to war) and (b) free an entire nation, all at once. Would we do (b) without (a)? I doubt we should. Clinton did it, but I don't conclude it was correct to have done so.