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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac who wrote (13328)	2/22/2003 11:42:48 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

Boy, Shrub has balls, all right. I grant you that. Anybody who gets selected emperor, 5-4 by the court and thinks that means he won 75% of the vote and has a mandate to be God has mighty big balls. There are lots of assholes around. Some of them are in positions of power, some are powerless, which makes them maybe even more dangerous. SH isn't the only powerful one who doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself (and probably his family,since he hasn't offed all his sons).We have them here; Shrub doesn't give a shit about me, nor my kids, nor the air I breathe.. SH isn't the only one to kill for something he wants. It's done all the time, even in America; for money, revenge, sex, whatever. Would I teach that to my children? Don't ask foolish questions. What would I hope to teach my kids? Lots of stuff, and some of it may have stuck, cuz the 2 boys (ha, boys; they are 26 and 27) were marching in SF last week. I don't think any of us against the war would defend SH or his actions (which were just fine when we were supplying him, and when he was using gas against the Iranians. Hell, they were just fine in '98 when Cheney was scoring big bucks for Haliburton in Iraq.) We have supported far too many bloody dictators during our history.He's just one more, but he has oil. Is he dangerous to me?" Not until he gets backed into a corner. There are lots of bad people running countries around the world. Some of them have WMDs. More will get them, now, purely because Shrub's big mouth has scared the holy hell out of them. It isn't our job to democratize the world. It isn't our job to liberate "whatever" people who live under an oppressive regime It wasn't too long ago that the Russians saw their mission to be the communization of the world. How are we any different than them, given our push to build an empire? How long do you think the world will tolerate it? Ask JW about economic warfare against us. That would pretty much render our nuclear might impotent. SH is pretty much in a win-win situation. We don't go to war, he stood up to us; we go to war and kill him, he becomes a larger than life hero for 1 billion Moslems. Waldo Ben Ladin has already won, too. Remember Shrub? "We are going to catch him, dead or alive". That was like 18 months ago. OBL has already won. Anyway, you want him dead so much, enlist and do the job yerself. It's time to shit or get off the pot. Oneproudhippie@ votingtaxpayeremployedlandowner.gov