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| Tue, 08-31-2004 - 9:58am |
I read your post (or should I say article!) on Bush's half-truths and non-truths, it was very interesting. A couple of thoughts:
How can you have a war on terror? It's not a country. It's not a race, nor a gender. It's a feeling!!! 9/11 was horribly wrong, but it was far from unprecedented. Here in the UK, we've been dealing with terrorism for a very long time, specifically from the IRA and other groups like it. But we didn't go and bomb the sh*t out of Australia because they had tenuous links to Ireland! This is not to say that we should be lenient on terrorists. But the vast majority of Iraqis who are now dead were not terrorists. If the minds behind 9/11 could be found, I'd gleefully pull the trigger myself, but why are we killing people with no connection whatsoever to that atrocity?
The idea of Bush and Blair sitting together praying gives me shivers. Separation of Church and State, people! Isn't that what your Constitution says?
Both of them have been proved to be liars, and to have taken our countries and our young men and women into war on completely fabricated grounds. I confess, I'm glad the Taliban are no longer in power in Afghanistan, but it's the height of idiocy to believe that we went into Iraq for any other primary reason than OIL!


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Sure they can thank you after they've finished counting their own dead and tallying up their own personal costs in supporting the War in Iraq.
Sure they can thank you after they've finished counting their own dead and tallying up their own personal costs in supporting the War in Iraq. "
Suemox - abso-bloody-lutely. I know people who were out there, English lads who were right there the whole time.
Canadian? That flag thingy is cool, how can I put one on my site name?
Hmmm....I did it by clicking on my name link (on top of the post). This brings you to a page where you can set up a profile, edit it and also "Edit Board Settings" link..go there. There is a place where you can add an icon next to your name. I checked it out and there was a choice to select a British flag (right next to the Canadian one :o)
You can find the speech in this thread.
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-elpoliticsto/?msg=3828.2
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