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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24879)	6/17/2003 11:06:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

You see the world in black and white, and cannot imagine the thoughts of decent people like the millions of Iraqis who correctly see you as their enemy, not their liberator. Talk about distortion.. I hardly believe anything you say above. The bottom line is that Iraqis are no different than any other group of people. Right now there are Iraqis who love us, Iraqis who hate us, and Iraqis who feel either way depending on whether they are getting any money from us. And with Saddam's regime, it was exactly the same way.. In fact, many of the Iraqis who hate us were some of the biggest supporters of Saddam's regime (Fallujah as an example), so why is it any surprise that they are a hotbed of Anti-US resentment? In such cases, I would expect us to be hated. But eventually, they will recognize that such activities will exclude them from playing any significant part in the post-Saddam governing of Iraq and some semblance of pragmatism will will over. Every country is made up diverse groups of people who have different interests, agendas, and cultural values. And were it not for the US playing "strong man", these groups would already be engaged in a civil war for control over the country. Perhaps it might help to open your mind to the moral ambiguity of war by directing you to the extraordinarily conflicted career of Senator John Kerry, Did you actually read that entire story? Kerry is a political whore. He came back from Vietnam already with hopes for a political career and found that being a Vietnam vet was not going to have the significance that it might had a decade earlier. So he becomes a dissident. Plots his strategies from the Pershing families resort home in Jamaica, hanging with his "blue-blooded" wife. This is someone who, like Al Gore, will say anything, do anything, and be anything, that it takes to achieve political office. Of course, with regard to vainly trying to win an argument, you seem to share much of the same qualities. After all.. I'm still chuckling over the Blix incident.. Claiming that his own spoken denial was merely "hearsay".. LOL!! Hawk