From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 16:46:45 MST
--- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >
> > It isn't sane to wish to leave WMD in the hands of a madman any
> more
> > than it is sane to let a terrorist engage in negotiations for the
> > release of their hostages. You don't negotiate with terrorists, and
> you
> > don't tolerate the tyranny of a madman. Anyone who does is a fool
> and a coward.
> >
>
> Anyone who doesn't agree to invade a sovereign country that may
> (although we can't prove it yet) have a few containers of nerve
> gas on hand, and thus probably embroil an entire region, kill
> tens, possibly hundreds of thousands and cost us hundreds of
> billions of dollars minimum is a coward? You have a pretty
> screwy value system
Saw a funny editorial cartoon the other day. Kim Jong Il is foaming at
the mouth, crazed eyes, in a straightjacket which is chained to the
floor and he is trying to wrestle his way out of it with several nukes
and missiles standing behind him. Several suits labeled as "UN arms
inspectors" are standing there, and one says to the other, "Do you
think we can positively spin this as 'Kim is exercising restraint?'".
If you think a proven madman, who has used WMD on innocent civilians of
his own country in the past, whose equally insane sons are documented
to be serial rapist/murderers and are in line for the leadership of
their country, is anybody we should be taking ANY chances with
whatsoever, it is YOU who has the screwey value system, not me.
>
> Whoever would attack on the current mostly lack of grounds is an
> irresponsible beligerent. A country that proposes to do so is
> acting in a rogue manner.
Sorry, you failed your moral equivalency exam. If you haven't been
paying attention to the past 13 years of history, we are in a state of
belligerency that dates back to the first Bush administration which was
INSTIGATED by Saddam, not us. I can understand your lack of ability to
follow a chain of events.
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