RE: Join the not-knowers, was RE: Giant anti-war demonstration i n Melbourne

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 18:31:43 MST

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    Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
    > I'm still in the undecided camp; if my rhetoric lately has been
    > somewhat hawkish, it's only because I'm truly embarrassed at the
    > pathetic quality of arguments I see from the other side. There
    > probably are some legitimate arguments for not acting right away,
    > but all I've heard from the anti-war crowd is the usual pacifist
    > drivel that war is wrong, there must be a better way, yada yada.

    My general argument is that you don't go to war against someone unless you
    have a good reason to. I haven't seen a single argument supporting going to
    war with Iraq that didn't look plain stupid.

    Someone tell me, poor silly fool that I am, why anyone would want to go to
    war with Iraq?

    > I also totally reject any notion that the present government of
    > Iraq is legitimate and deserves respect under international law,
    > and the notion that action might actually increase the threat of
    > terrorism is predicated on the ridiculous notion that those who
    > hate us have or need legitimate reasons.

    It still begs the question of why you would want to go to war in the first
    place.

    Emlyn

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