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

To: Just_Observing who wrote (14137)	2/28/2003 10:57:19 PM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 25898

Wild horses couldn't drag me to war By Dick Turner \| Special to the Sentinel Posted February 28, 2003 Maybe it's because Saddam Hussein dissed Dubya's daddy. Maybe it's because Dick Cheney can't wait to gobble up more of the world's oil supply. Maybe it's because certain politicians are obligated to support Israel at any cost. Whatever the case, it's obvious that we are about to blow Iraq to smithereens -- which the president says we are going to do "in the name of peace." Somewhat like saying, "I'm a nonviolent man and I'll kill anyone who says otherwise." Well, I think the whole thing is a sham and a shame. Iraq, with its suspected nuclear weapons, is certainly less a threat to the United States than North Korea with its known nukes. Why then are we so hellbent on obliterating this California-sized nation with one-tenth our population? If Iraq had wronged us in any way I'd be the first to say, "Let's go get them." But no tie has been made between Iraq and the terror of 9-11 despite White House attempts to "connect the dots." Therefore, some experts testify, attacking Iraq will enrage the entire Arab and Muslim worlds to the point where we in America will face what Israel is already facing -- recurrent bombings in buses, supermarkets and restaurants. Do we really want that? To say nothing of the fact that even if we massacre every man, woman and child in Iraq, we won't get off scot-free. Our young men and women are going to die there as certainly as they died in Vietnam. And notice I say, "young men and women." Because, surely, President Bush is not going over there to fight. In truth, he didn't even join the fray when his own generation marched off to war. He chose the Air National Guard instead, and passed the time in Texas. And Ari Fleischer, and Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of those tough-talking, drum-beating, war-whooping sycophants? You think they're going to volunteer? Don't make me laugh! You know what war with Iraq reminds me of? When my kid brother and I were young, he would sometimes annoy me to the point where I'd give him a whack across the head. One day my mother caught me just as I hit him, and I thought "Uh-oh, here it comes." But Mom never raised her hand. She just looked at me sadly and sighed, "Ah, the king has conquered a rag doll." Should this proud country of ours now march off to conquer a rag doll? I say absolutely not -- and it isn't because I'm a pacifist or a coward. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, I enlisted in the U.S. Navy. We had been attacked, and I was eager to fight for my country. But this war? A war where we are the ones who attack? Wild horses couldn't drag me to it. Dick Turner, who describes himself as a patriotic but rational American, lives in Kissimmee. orlandosentinel.com

To: Just_Observing who wrote (14137)	2/28/2003 11:54:33 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

JO re: First mass-distilled by Arabs and just to think that arabs claim that alcohol was invented by Jews so they can steel from drunken arab and that why muslims are not allowed to drink <ggggg>

To: Just_Observing who wrote (14137)	3/1/2003 2:53:27 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 25898

"BUSH, GEORGE W. When he was a young man of draft age in 1970, facing induction and possible deployment to Vietnam, the patriotic and hawkish Bush joined not the U.S. Army or Air Force, but the Texas Air National Guard. During his four-year enlistment, the son of then-Congressman George H.W. Bush served just 68 days on active duty, flying obsolete F-102 interceptors in defense of the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, records show it is likely the future commander in chief was absent without leave (AWOL) during his last two years of service. From May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973, Bush was actually in Alabama, working on a U.S. Senate campaign. In theory, Bush was part of the 9921st Air Reserve Squadron of the Alabama Air National Guard—a paper command that had no aircraft or pilots and met just one weeknight per month—but the future president’s request to get transferred to that all-but-nonexistent unit never went through. Military personnel records obtained by numerous newspapers and researchers during the 2000 presidential election make clear Bush likely never returned to active duty until his 1974 discharge. " Interesting. Now TELL ME ABOUT BILL CLINTON'S MILITARY RECORD. Tell me ALL about it. LOL

To: Just_Observing who wrote (14137)	3/1/2003 2:56:17 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 25898

"CHICKENHAWK. A prominent person who loudly advocates war but who skipped the chance to put himself in harm’s way when he was eligible to serve in combat." You mean like Bill Clinton--the brave bomber of Kosovo?