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

To: Qone0 who wrote (14093)	2/28/2003 6:43:14 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Siding with Saddam just to oppose bush. How did you arrive at that conclusion? To oppose "war" is not the same as supporting Saddam. The UN estimates that there will be 500,000 Iraqi casualties if the US attacks. Most of them will be innocent Iraqi civilians and many children. That's too high a price to pay just to get one guy. And we will inflame and radicalize the entire Muslim world of one billion. Do we want to be involved in a perpetual cycle of hatred and killing? The war is opposed by the rest of the world. We will kill our economy, which is already in a coma, if we go to war without UN authorization. You will see global boycotts of our products as people vent their frustration on American companies. As it is, our economy is dying from the uncertainty of the war as businesses hold back investment and consumers cut back on spending seeing the economy slowing. If not for decency and justice, then for our own security and prosperity, we should let UN inspections work. We help create and nurture this evil. We don't want to compound this evil by killing innocent Iraqis. You people will destroy the democratic party. As for the Democratic party, if it does not act in the interests of the nation then it will meet its well deserved fate. And the same fate awaits the Republican party if it fails this nation. Instead of propping up a decrepit political system, let evolution work its magic.

To: Qone0 who wrote (14093)	2/28/2003 9:06:43 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

>>>Its about about the left wing attacking Bush. Siding with Saddam just to oppose bush.<<< Is the pope a leftwinger? The pope, after all, is calling for a worldwide fast for peace on March 5th. Are Pat Buchanon or Colnel Hackworth leftwingers? And do you know what the general who headed the last Gulf War thinks? Come on, Robert--get your act together and realize we criticize Bush because it is Bush and his stronghawk advisors who are pushing for the war we don't want. You think simply saying "No War" is sufficient and that there is no merit in criticizing those who are pushing this war? Please, please and more please--be realistic in this! The war makes no sense for lots of reasons. And the only reason why the war does make sense to some people is because some people have become afraid. I submit that the Bush administration, because it is unable to come to grasp with domestic economic issues, is playing the war card as it's motive, a triumph over fear, if you will. Secondary to maintaining political power here in America, are the economic benefits gained by the insiders close to the president who are jointly pushing for this war. None of them in Washington will see the blood and guts and human disfigurements that'll litter the Iraqi landscape. And the bodies of dead Americans brought home will be flag-draped and unseen. Yes, the warmonger champions will see some of the tears of some--but that's about it; and no matter how many tears that will be cried by Americans who'll lose loved ones, those tears won't come close to matching the quantity the scotch whiskey drunk by those in Washington who pushed this war on a people that didn't want war, and upon a people who never asked to be "liberated." Indeed, oil for blood will be celebrated in an odd way by the establishment thinkers.