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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (3804)	3/27/2003 11:33:37 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Bookmark this post and feel free to give me a colonoscopy with it Pardon me if I don't take up that kind invitation, whatever happens... We didn't originally settle on war with Iraq because Saddam might possess some minimal chemical weapons capability... Really, look at that sentence. As an excuse for war, it's ludicrous. I'm not sure what the underlying reasons are. zonder summarised some; I suspect pride/national ego, geo-strategic aims on the control of the ME (or, to be precise, it's oil) and the enhancement of Israeli power are at the root. These aims are all viewed through a glass distorted by bitterness over Vietnam (remember Cheney's vintage), clouded by dogma and warped by absolutist views which will not permit of anything other than absolute dualism. "You're either with us or you're against us" is a good slogan for 8-year-olds playing at war. It doesn't even cover a football match - neutrals? officials? casual spectators? fans from other teams? visitors and tourists? - never mind anything as complicated as international diplomacy... and no one nation, even one as militarily powerful as the US is currently, can avoid this...