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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (12638)	2/25/2003 5:35:37 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

The process began with the Al_Quaida , but was never meant to end there Oh oh, so Al-Qaeda is dealt with, run to the ground, its leaders captured or killed, especially Osama bin Ladin is punished for his crimes??? I must have missed all that! Can you begin to grasp that ? Not yet. I will probably "begin to grasp" it better once you explain to me what on earth invading Iraq, a secular country with no known tie to Al-Qaeda, has ANYTHING to do with the fight against terrorism, notably Al-Qaeda, the group that made darts out of two Boeings and nailed them into WTC towers, killing 3,000 civilians in the process. you expect the our military to murder 500,000 innocent civilians by blanket bombings in Iraq? I doubt if it will be 500,000 (don't know where you got the number) but the civilian toll will probably be about 3,000 or so, which was, after all, the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan during the fight against the Taliban. That is unacceptable to me. i could show you much more up close if you like ....this is a human disease of the mind melded to religion. And this is about when I start ranting about how I love North Americans lecture me on Islam and militant terrorism, with their CNN-based information base :-) Just don't, OK? I have had a taste of these people far more than you can imagine. I hope you have a better rationale for supporting the invasion of Iraq than attacking Islamist fundamentalism, for IRAQ IS A SECULAR COUNTRY AND THE ONE FARTHEST AWAY FROM ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM among Arab countries. I hope that was clear. I would be interested to hear if you have other points, but PLEASE do not try to argue for the invasion of Iraq on the basis of "terrorism is bad" (no link between terrorists and Iraq ever established) or "Islamist fundamentalism is bad" (Iraq a secular country, where women enjoy far more freedom than, say, Saudi Arabia, a US ally) there are also other forms of terrorism upon persons in this world here too fgmnetwork.org; Are you trying to suggest that Iraqi women undergo female circumcision??? If not, what is your point???