From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 22:09:06 MDT
will@wiserlife.com wrote:
> It's not killing folks to show democracy is better. It's removing
> an oppressive dictatorship to give democracy a chance. Killing
> people is an sad side effect.
Yeah it's those side effects that getcha though.
> But one could also view it as making an example of a
> criminal to tell other criminals to clean up there acts or else.
I see it as something out of the Godfather movies, a war between crime
families after their business deals went sour, where expense is no
object since it's paid for by other people's money.
> It does trouble me that governments (people) so seldom give their own
> reasons for things. [ ... ] That Washington mostly wanted to see a
> democracy in Iraqi as an Arab example of a better system does not
> bother me. That oil and strategic concerns are a big part of the equation
> does not bother me. All in all either the war was predictably likely to be
> a net win for the US, the world, and the Iraqi people or it was not.
Yeah, that gets me too. Who cares about a few thousand dead Iraqi's? Who
cares that we'll be paying tax money to aid Iraq -- helping them pay off
Haliburton, for example. And cheaper gas, we can hope, yes? But it's the
blatant lying about it that burns me.
-Mike
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