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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (22583)	6/10/2010 5:00:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50537

I was one of very few saying there were no WMDs. Saddam said there were none too. Everyone else seemed to think Saddam was ready to launch atomic bombs onto London and New York in 45 minutes. Now, the very term Weapons of Mass Destruction has been degraded to include any device which can kill or maybe just injure more than one person at a time. A cigarette lighter would be called a weapon of mass destruction. Yes, on an airliner, if it was used to light a few litres of brandy and start a fire, it could cause mass destruction. But it is absurd to call a cigarette lighter a weapon of mass destruction. <I don't want to send our sons and daughters to fight any more unjust wars for Israel over yellow cake uranium, WMD's, or nukes that don't exist.> Were you in favour of attacking Saddam because of his WMDs? <I also want my Congress and my country back, and that, I am willing to fight for. > Why fight? All you have to do is vote. I want my country in far far better condition than it is, but I'm not going to fight people who want to take it down the gurgler [though like you saying you want peace, that's not what they think they are doing]. <I don't want a battlefield - I want peace.> Yeah right, that's why you compare Israeli soldiers boarding a blockade busting Islamic Jihad ship bound for the missile launching bases of Gaza with hostage taking, murdering ransom seeking pirates from Somalia. If you actually did want peace, you might start with honesty. When people are dishonest, refuse to reason, or ignore facts, it's because they want to conceal their real motives. The way nature works, is that people have developed a reasoning faculty and great advantage by working in specialized ways in huge co-operative enterprise. When that reasoning process is not used and mutual benefit denied, the process is not much different from chimpanzee territorial conflicts. The long trend of such human conflicts and co-operative enterprise is that the more monkey-like humans with less reasoning ability have been eliminated from the gene pool. Unfortunately, when stuck in a monkey cage with no bars between me and the monkeys, I am forced to defend myself. Trying to train them to sit nicely and drink tea is not always successful. Then it's time to use the weapons of mass destruction and put the monkeys in their place. Eugenics has a long, honourable and successful history and continues apace with women being the main exponents these days. They carefully choose among the genes on offer and eliminate those they consider beyond the pale. People who are against discrimination probably think it's unfair. Bad luck for them. They would probably like to pass a law that women have to have sex with any loser who shows up with an erection. Fortunately, women have choice and they can deny reproductive rights to anyone they choose. Some people think that if they are raped, they should be forced to have the child. Fortunately, most people don't think rape is a good way of deciding who gets to be in the next generation. Mqurice