Re: IRAQ sort of: Re: Tim May calls for nuking of D.C.

From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 04:13:56 MST

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    Am Samstag, 22. Februar 2003 17:31 schrieb Dehede011@aol.com:
    > Kai, If I remember correctly you used to argue to make the world safe
    > for socialism -- now you are arguing to protect a dictator.

    You're wrong in both cases. It seems to be impossible for you to think of
    other ways then bombs and invasion to remove Saddams clique from power
    and give the Iraqi people the freedom to build a peaceful, democratic
    society - if this really is the goal of Mr. Bushs clique (I doubt this).
    What an entropic way of thinking. It's so much easier to scribble some
    techno-babble, when reality becomes too complex, hm?

    BTW, if _I_ remember correctly, you're not a friend of powerful
    governments, pressing their will onto others, are you? So why are you now
    following Mr. Bush so blindly into a preemptive war that will destabilize
    international relations and therefore create more trouble? What is it
    that cannot wait some more months, some more hundred inspectors, better
    surveillance, UN human rights supervisors who ensure free press, access
    to free information and free elections in some years, etc.? Why is a
    massive attack, with thousands of deaths and an uncontrollable outcome,
    the only plan? Why is a slower pace so impossible for Mr. Bush, a more
    controllable pace with less deaths and less political and religious
    outbursts?

    And regarding the "clear and present danger": Please show me one argument
    showing a real threat to the US, here and now, something that _only_ a
    massive attack and invasion can prevent. Something based on real facts
    that would at least stand an ordinary trial in some provincial court room.

       Kai

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    == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany ==
      "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
    


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