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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57209)	11/20/2004 9:49:19 PM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You have not faced yourself in the mirror and asked: How much do I love my son, how much, and really how much. Therefore you'll never know until it happens. It is easy to rationalize everything from Vietnam to Iraq and WMD etc. You don't know the feeling until it hits you. Understandably people who do not have loved ones destroyed in this unnecessary war have no compassion to others who have. They develop callus in their hearts: the war is far away and you don't feel the impact. If that happens at your house and have a loved one died, you will know and feel the pain. As such, I just think you belong to the group who does not care as long as it is not you or your loved ones who suffers lost of limbs or eyesight or life. If you are such a person, there is nothing more I can say because it reflects the character of a person. And don't claim that you are the follower of Christ. You can scream all day long that you support the troops, and that's just that: vocalizing, nothing more and nothing less. What kind of support is that? If you still buying what the neocons' justification in invading Iraq instead of going after Osama bin Laden who is still running loose, then there is nothing more we can discuss. May the Lord have mercy upon those who have develop callus in their hearts.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57209)	11/21/2004 9:07:13 PM
From: the navigator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Most of us realize that after 911 we can't accept anymore the existence of terror-supporting regimes in the world. Though we should have realized much sooner given the decades of terror attacks against us. We did the right thing removing Saddam. We would have had to fight him again someday even if we'd backed down in '03 like the anti-war folks wish. I'll tell you right now, we also need to remove the current Iranian regime. I pray our leaders realize that and are planning to do whatever it takes to accomplish. Our enemies are those who radicalize Islam. They are motivated by religious fervor and rarely has a more dangerous motivation been seen in the world. In Iraq, we changed a secular Islamist state into a breeding ground, a lab if you will, for our enemies to grow and nurture what drives them to hate us. Iraq is now radicalized and enfused with the passion of our enemies. I'm not sure how you can call that "making the world a safer place." Saddam was rough on his own people, but he did not allow the religous fervor that is driving the insurgents that we see running rampant now. The fact that we've lost people already in Iraq makes it even more important to me that we not give up and make their sacrifices a waste like we did in Viet Nam. It is one thing to make sacrifices. It is another to make sacrifices and have your fellow citizens trying as hard as they can to make those sacrifices a mockery and waste. What do you know about Viet Nam? Do you think that we gave up and left Viet Nam and thus made the sacrifices of those who served there a waste?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (57209)	11/22/2004 1:39:14 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 81568

I'll tell you right now, we also need to remove the current Iranian regime. I pray our leaders realize that and are planning to do whatever it takes to accomplish. You don't have to pray for it. They will attack Iran sooner or later. It is only a question of time. And it is gonna take a lot more soldiers to pacify Iran in order to "bring democracy" to them as it is 3 times larger than Iraq. On second thoughts, let's pray -- together -- that it happens. For that will bring on a draft sooner than later. And there is nothing like a draft to bring the cretins in the "red" states from their fantasy world to the real world.