From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 10:57:04 MDT
dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> As you are talking about the group that approved of the war with Iraq
> let me chip in:
> 1. I am under the impression we are in the minority. Of course being right
> lent us weight but not majority status.
Ron, please explain exactly what the 'group' (henceforth the group 'that
approved of the war with Iraq') was 'right' about. Nuclear weapons? No.
Other WMD? No. Saddam's links to 9/11? No.
> 2. We are not militarists. A person willing to fight when they are under
> attack is not fairly defined as a militarist.
Please let us know exactly how the 'group' defines the U.S. 'under
attack' from Iraq.
> 3. We were not loud, we had the weight of the facts, we were clear in our
> presentations (all but me) and reduced your position to logical rubble but we
> did not out shout you.
Ron, a good percentage of my income was coerced from me to build JDAMs
which (despite commendable efforts to avoid such) killed innocent
children in Iraq, a country with which everyone agrees the war was
'optional'. Please clarify if this means you priviledge the state over
individuals (thus being a collectivist), or how you would otherwise
explain this being consistent with extropian and/or libertarian
principals that speak of self-ownership and self-determination.
Thanks,
-Mike
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