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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SOROS who wrote (14098)	3/7/2003 10:42:37 AM
From: portage	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

What's happening here, I'd hardly call the will of the people. A small cabal of unelected bloodthirsty, power mad, money grubbing neocon chickenhawks are using lies and deceit and the mass media that they control to try to scare and influence the masses into compliance. No doubt, Saddam's a baddie (placed in power by the neocon's antecedents). But if this blitzkrieg goes through, between 1991 and 2003, the freedom loving US of A will have probably killed between a half million and a million or more Iraqis between the wars and sanctions. All to get one man, with whom most of the dead probably don't hold concurrent views. How many American's have the Iraqi's killed ? The rush to war is not to stop Hussein from destroying us, nor liberating his people, it's about establishing quick American hegemony in the middle east. I disagree with this policy, strongly. There are paths that we're pursuing now that don't require the live testing of new weapons that the military industrial complex so crave$ from their cu$hy office$, while their handiwork blows arms, legs, heads, and chunks of flesh to kingdom come. Call it human nature if you want. It ain't my nature. This kind of shit should be a very last resort, which we're a long way from, not a hyperventilating rush to action. Neocons are turning this country into a monster.