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

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (17518)	3/8/2003 2:55:42 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

This is getting to be like the Hate Bug in the Doctor Who Comic Book. It goes like this: The good folk are hiding away from a repressive dictatorial government that has decreed no one can have any emotion. It's sort of a recreate of the Movie Farenheight 451 (did I get that title right?) where they're all living in railroad cars in the countryside. But instead of like in the movie where they're all walking around remembering the words to book which were repressed, these folks are walking around each with the duty of remember a different emotion. Remember? Emotions are repressed in this world? Anyway, the good Doctor Who is with 'em. Suddenly alarm bells ring and word spreads throughout the camp that the dictator's army is invading, and there's nothing they can do--they're defenseless. While Doctor Who and the leader of the camp are trying to decide what to do, one of the leaders realized the Emotion of Hate who'd been growing blood bugs was letting 'em out of the containment area. You see, blood bugs were renown for killing what they came into contact with. But the Emotion of Hate let 'em go anyway, madly screaming "I hate everything," as he released 'em just as the invading army charged forward. The irony to this story is that the blood bugs didn't eat emotional beings, they only consumed non-emotional beings, thus gobbling up the invading army and leaving all the good folk, their emotions intact, alive and ready to revive the world they once knew. And Doctor Who lived on for another issue. I guess the point I'm trying to make is you can't be against everybody and that the course of the Bush Administration is a dangerous one, a path that's seen long cherished allies and the vast majority of world opinion turn against us because they could not bring themselves to believe in what Bush is purpporting to do, where we've seen the pope, the archbishop of Canterbury and world religious leaders far and wide deeply opposed America's threat of a Middleeastern war. Bush almost is appearing like the Emotion of Hate in that Doctor Who Comic Book, proclaiming by his actions, "I hate everything" and the real difference being his sophisticated weaponry, unlike the blood bugs, have the awesome power to kill emotional beings. 'Tis sad!