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

To: ajax99 who wrote (14986)	3/3/2003 5:39:09 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 25898

Message 18647928 Does that make you feel better? Since I simply cannot see Ashcroft walking the plank, then I guess I vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate in '04. I don't know what the best thing for Iraq is, I really do not believe bombing its people is "War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means." - Karl von Clausewitz but I am almost certain that the worst thing for the USA is not following its own constitution and opening Pandora’s Box with pre-emptive strikes. Oh Kay. You get the same question Patricia did: In that case, you are ready to state that you opposed and demonstrated against Clinton's intervention in the Balkans, correct? Because the US never declared war on anything in that area. And it has not and constitutionally cannot cede its war authority to the UN. Yes? You did show up in DC with a "NO WAR ON YUGOSLAVIA!" sign? Going to war against a country at peace is not one of them. The US was supplying war materiel to Britain from east coast ports before the US entry into WW2- -we were NOT at war with Germany. Nevertheless, FDR provided US destroyer escorts to those British freighters. The destroyers had "sink on sight" orders with regard to German submarines. Should FDR have been impeached for this violation of the Constitution? Even in kindergarten there are sometimes fights, and some kids are mean and most kids are nice and when kids are mean most teachers try and help them. Imagine if there was a mean kid who was hurting other kids and then this big huge kid rich kid in the class who was always getting everything he wanted came to school one day with an Uzi and wasted the mean kid and a few other nice kids who happened to be in the way. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? I think you gave a very good example of kindergarten thinking here and in the preceding example. Saddam is not a 5-year-old. Nor are his generals. They understand full well what is at stake. Any pretense that they do not is disingenuous. Is supporting the collateral deaths of thousands of Iraqi women and children to remove Saddam really all that much different? Millions of German civilians were killed in WW2. Should the death camps have not been liberated?