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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13107)	2/26/2003 6:44:12 AM
From: ChrisJP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

Hey Lazarus, I appreciate you posting here, but you gotta understand ... PartyLine, Raymond, Patricia, and Karen are nothing more than a reason-defying propaganda machine. They are not here for the purpose of discussion, they are here to post anything that expresses distain for the United States, no matter how biased. I started reading this thread out of interest, but when one of them posted something sick and twisted that tried to lay the blame for the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children (which by the way, occurred during the Clinton administration) on the US instead where it belongs, on Saddam, then it became clear to me what this thread was all about. Message 18494766 Message 18496362 I have no use for people who knowingly post lies that support their beliefs for the purpose of attempting to persuade others to their point of view. In fact I consider these sorts of people extremely dangerous. Regards, Chris

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13107)	2/26/2003 8:42:14 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Intellectual honesty and consistency is not a demolib pinhead kinda thing....

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13107)	2/26/2003 9:23:37 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Now now let's not miscast the past The Iran Iraq war was mostly a border dispute, it was not exactly an "invasion". If you recall it was over a waterway (a disputed waterway). Iraq was strongly supported by our pal Saudi Arabia, by Kuwait, by the USSR (and eventually by us). Iraq started to use nasty weapons when it looked like Iran might win the war- they weren't in use from the beginning of hostilities. So, one could argue that he used them defensively when he began to worry that he could lose the war to Iran (and this was a possibility at some points in the war). That does not make what Partytime said a lie- it makes it an evaluation of the war you disagree with (if in fact you have ever even evaluated the war. You might be disagreeing without any basis at all. Who can tell?)