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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HighTech who wrote (4714)	3/17/2003 5:19:46 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

<<<It doesn't really matter whether motivations are pure or not.>>> It does if you wish to differentiate between ideals and rationalizations. A genocidal bigot may become adept at claiming some higher good being the reason behind their genocidal bigotry, but once you cut through the smoke and mirrors, all you have left is a genocidal bigot. I can certainly understand why you are not very proud of what you are and why you would attempt to hide behind flimsy socially acceptable excuses in order to give the appearance of respectability. You speak of "Histroy" as something which will occur in the future, yet ignore the proof of recorded history. As a direct result of the last Iraq war, over a quarter million Iraqis died, 60% of them children. You speak of freedom, but ignore terrorizing an entire nation with daily bombings and threats of annihilation, while watching thousands of people abandon their homes to escape the destruction of their families. If being forced to leave one's home under sentence of death is your idea of freedom, you're an even bigger hypocrite than I already know you are. You speak of a desire for peace as an act of cowardice, while making war on the helpless. Your real problem is you hate anyone who doesn't look like you, who doesn't speak the same language as you, has a different culture than you, and worships a different god than you do. You can't conceive of them as being human, and will dance with joy to see their children's bodies stacked like cordwood outside their homes. You try to defend such cowardice and hypocrisy as being part of a higher good, yet your actions expose the lie for what it is, and it's you who are less than human, not the innocent dead.