From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 15:33:27 MST
"Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com> Wrote:
> Do you believe there is anything like "international law"
No.
> or that there should be?
Yes.
> Do you believe that might makes right
Do you believe Saddam has a "right" to remain dictator of Iraq?
> The best reasons for not going to war are: 1) It will not make
> America any "safer"
All else being equal there is no doubt that if Iraq were no longer
developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons the USA would be safer,
and I don't need quotation marks. There is only one real question, is all
else equal? I don't know.
> It will cost a large fortune when we are already economically tanked;
Probably about 100 billion, pocket change.
> It will dirictly and indirectly result in the real deaths of
> a guesstimated 100,000 - 1,000,000 people.
Well now Samantha those are real interesting numbers, but I remind you on
October 25, 2001 at 5:15 AM you said:
"At the current rate millions of Afghanis will die this winter from
hunger."
I don't believe that happened, then you said:
"This "war""
Quotation marks??
"is not about freedom, enduring or otherwise. It is about \
vengeance, incredible hypocrisy and dishonesty about our own
"terrorism"
Quotation marks??
" and grabbing more power in a region where we have been
attempting to get rights to pipe oil across to growing Southeast
Asian market for sometime. Our response has nothing to do
with being tolerant or even remotely rational."
So, it was not even remotely rational to stop the Taliban from cutting
thousand's of people's hands off in the soccer stadium. Very interesting.
>The American people do not want this war
That's not what the polls show.
>and it will tear hell out the already fragile respect for government
>and law
Only if the war goes bad. Will it? I don't know.
> It will further inflame the Middle East and inflame the most
> retrograde and anti-Western aspects of Islam worldwide.
OH MY GOD!! YOU MEAN ISLAM WILL NO LONGER LOVE US!!!
As I said before the reasons for not going to war given on this list really
suck, it's strange because there are serious reasons for being nervous about
the Bush policy.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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