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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5347)	3/29/2003 8:45:35 PM
From: matthew (Hijacked)	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

WHY WHY and WHY Simple.....MOTIVE! You can't simply waltz into a sovereign state and take over. You need a pretext. In time they may have a pretext to waltz into SA and Kuw and others

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5347)	3/30/2003 1:38:38 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

--2. Why didn't we invade Saudi instead? More oil and softer target. -- i think that the saudis may have nukes; or they may be mossad operatives; or the u.s. might be wary of actually occupying mecca and medina...

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5347)	3/30/2003 1:59:10 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

If this war is about oil, 1. Why didn't we just keep Kuwait when we had it? 2. Why didn't we invade Saudi instead? More oil and softer target. 3. Why did we invade Venezuela and/or Mexico? Softer targets and closer. How big an idiot are you? jttmab

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5347)	3/30/2003 2:57:18 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Good news Laz...we're on our way to convincing the Arab world that it's not about oil... In Cairo, some residents with long ties to the United States said that the bombing of civilians made them lose all hope that relations could return to normal. "It is as if you are watching a horror movie," said Summer Said, a journalist for the Cairo Times, an English-language newsmagazine. "I thought, at first, okay, maybe it isn't a war for oil. Maybe America does want to help. Now, it's genocide to me. Is the American government trying to exterminate Arabs?".... "Bush is an occupier and terrorist. He thought he was playing a video game," said George Elnaber, 36, a Arab Christian and the owner of a supermarket in Amman. "We hate Americans more than we hate Saddam now," he said, referring to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein..... The outrage was also felt in Syria, which suffered war casualties when a U.S. missile accidentally hit a busload of civilians Monday in Iraq about 100 miles from the Syrian border. "I was watching what was happening and I found myself cursing for the first time in my life," a 17-year-old student named Lama told the Reuters news agency. "I felt I wanted to kill, not only curse."... [Note: Looks like we've made a lifetime friend.] washingtonpost.com Here's a real optimist from the ranks of those we are "liberating"..... "War is better than the sanctions," his father said. At those words, a customer standing silently at his shop jumped in. "Sanctions are a slow death," said Fadhil Faleh, 47, who is unemployed. "War brings a quick death, and a quick death is preferable." washingtonpost.com