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

To: Just_Observing who wrote (10321)	4/8/2003 11:31:45 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

The death of a single child was not worth this invasion. How many kids did Saddam kill? Or do those not matter because he's your bosom buddy? Their lives were worth nothing? I wonder how he feels now seeing all the civilian casualties of his invasion. Statements like that make me think you and your ilk are simple-minded idiots. Unable to deal with reality. Totally out of contact with it. Wars kill people. Nobody told you? And some of the people are innocent civilians. If you know of a way of fighting a war thjat kills no one but soldiers, contact DOD. Know something? I think they will be interested.

To: Just_Observing who wrote (10321)	4/9/2003 12:01:35 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 21614

RE:The death of a single child was not worth this invasion. But you would happily let Saddam kill as many women and children as he feels like. Why the double standard?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (10321)	4/9/2003 12:28:45 AM
From: bwanadon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Maybe Elie Wiesel can talk some sense into you. Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel says Iraq war justified Sun Apr 6, 4:22 PM ET MONTREAL (AFP) - Nobel peace prize laureate Elie Wiesel said the war on Iraq (news - web sites) is justified and blamed unnamed European countries for failing to prevent it through pressuring President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). "If some European countries put as much pressure on Saddam Hussein as on (US President George W.) Bush, there would have been no war," he told a press conference in Montreal. "Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed (and) there were no other means," said the Nazi concentration camp survivor and author who was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1986 for his message "of peace, atonement and human dignity." The press conference was organized by the Quebec-Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Montreal Jewish community's official public action group on behalf of Israel. The Romanian-born Wiesel, who became a US citizen in 1963, said he did "not justify" war and was "not comfortable" with it, but that he was not a pacifist and believed in the "right to interference". He added: "You can accuse me of being naive, but I think in all conscience that this war was necessary." Dismissing suggestions that he is a "hostage of the American right", Wiesel said: "I am not against paradoxes, I take them on, as someone who opposes war, who has seen war and who hates war." The US-led war on Iraq, he said, "will change the world." He said he was optimistic over prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians after the appointment of Mahmud Abbas, a moderate known as Abu Mazen, as Palestinian prime minister. Stressing that Palestine Authority President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) had been "a big disappointment" for the Israelis, Wiesel said he hoped a three-month moratorium on terrorist actions would be called "to give a chance" to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites). "The problem is terrorism (but) it will be necessary one day to settle this tragedy" in the Middle East, he said.