To: techguerrilla who wrote (17215 ) 4/15/2003 10:15:13 AM From: Jim Willie CB Respond to of 89467 please, no insults with labels or references as "liberal" I am Libertarian, big difference I oppose hypocrisy, lies, deceit, and control of information as well as corruption in our monetary and financial corners criminal activity on both fronts is vast nowadays this war makes me sick to my stomach we are posturing now against Syria just like my Paki Ahmad warned about two weeks ago who allows us to control what a Weapon of Mass Destruction is? our conventional weapons have evolved into far more dangerous devices than chemical gas, which disperses we are using this WMD cleverly as a cover for military adventurism which on its face has clear criminal motives from insincerity as though that isnt enough, we are even more sinister, claiming not to find WMD as cause for entering neighboring nations this reminds me of Salem Witch Trials in the 18th Century people were burned at the stake for accusations of witchcraft if they didnt confess, their neighbors were attacked, coerced and tortured into confession their witchcraft so if the witch was not found, then the hunt moved elsewhere, and the tyranny widened in later years, the real motives were revealed A FARMER WANTED ACCESS TO PROPERTY LEADING TO THE OCEANFRONT HOW LITTLE HAS CHANGED, AS WE PURSUE A PIPELINE TO THE PERSIAN GULF we are creating hostile relations with our staunchest allies in Europe in the process we will need European support at some point in the future but I doubt we will receive it in our next time of need that need will have financial weakness as its basis it will become glaring as a need as sure as night follows day now the US Military has clear superiority but the cruelty and inhumanity lies in our willingness to use it especially from 35,000 feet and from 500 miles away "in order to minimize deaths of our soldiers" my heart goes out to 1000's of American soldiers I applaud their efforts to protect innocent civilians, their homes, their mosques, and supplies intended for them it is not their fault that their commander & chief is using false premises, doctored documents, billion dollar bribery, trade sanction threats, control of media, and other bully tactics to justify and wage this war the generals are having their own hot disputes with Rumsfeld, who has demonstrated a keen ability to lie in order to deflect criticism, then lie again in order to take credit the Joint Chiefs of Staff are as quiet as the 1943 German Generals were back then in voicing dissenting opinions instead of the Russian Front, they face Forced Retirement, or posts in Guam I personally know one marine soldier near Basra, working on communications links, and hope she does not give her life for this unjust cause when are we gonna see tens of 1000's of Iraqi corpses lying on the desert sand, killed by pushbutton soldiers flying at 150 mph protected by titanium undercarriage ???this isnt war, IT IS A VIDEO GAME Arab and Islamic retaliation and counter attacks will not appear on the battlefield they will appear in the financial markets prepare for assaults on the USDollar, and its flipside the US Treasury Bond when it happens, and price inflation reappears, know well that is their response to our callous regard for their human lives for what? for oil for military airbases for defense from Arab PetroDollar selling Saddam's clear record of brutality provides "plausible deniability" for seizure of oil fields and military bases this is being carried out like a CIA textbook operation / jim p.s. I had to straighten out my Arab friend in Dubai he wondered if I am an economist so two insults in the same day by insinuation