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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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I have said a few times that I know almost nothing about John Kerry, and to be honest, whether or not he is a traitor to the US is fairly irrelevant to me. That's something for the American people to consider. My question is how will he treat the rest of the world.
As for the UN, i trust you are aware that it's an international group with the proclaimed aim of world harmony? The term 'Rogue State' has been applied by both our governments to various 'unpalatable' rulers and dictatorships around the world. But if America, or the UK come to that, is not answerable to the global community (represented by the UN), how is it different from any of those nations? Doesn't it then become simply the biggest bully in the playground?
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