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Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 15 2003, 11:32 AM
There were, however, some colorful outbursts from the audience. One person, when I referred to "a clever psychopath leader like Saddam," shouted out "or George Bush!" When asked whether he thought America should even be hunting down Osama bin Laden for the Sept. 11 attacks, he replied that "maybe we could get some sort of dialogue going with him." Another fellow, who identified himself as a Native American, referred angrily to "broken treaties with the white man" and said the U.S. government hasn't changed ever since.
HAHAHA This is funny stuff.... Have to love the anti-war movement!!
White man speak with Fork Tounge!!
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I agree with you in that regard, Mike. A lot of people make some pretty lame arguements to support their position, both for the war and against it. (The guy with the "start a dialouge" routine does need serious help, however.)
In the artilce slavdogg posted, for example, David Kupelian makes the disingenuous arguement that we cannot expect fair treatment at the security council in part because China "... claims to have ICBMs targeting U.S. cities." Now, I don't much care for that idea; but considering the fact that the U.S. has had ICBMs targeting Chinese cities since
before China was a nuclear power, it seems we have a standoff - I don't see that as any more relevant to the issue of a war with Saddam than "broken treaties with the white man."
Our own defense department has serious questions about whether Saddam was responsible for attacking "60 villages and 30,000 citizens with poisonous gas. Between 1983 and 1988 alone, he murdered more than 30,000 Iraqi citizens with mustard gas and nerve agents." I'm not saying he did or he didn't; I suspect he did, but after falling for the "babies snatched from incubators" story 13 years ago I'm a little suspicious of my own government.
And then we get to the best one. "We went in for Hitler – who didn't attack the United States, by the way – and we are going in for Saddam.' Actually, he had attacked the United States a number of times at sea, and there was the little matter of the declaration of war Hitler declared on December 10, 1941.
So weak, shallow arguements and questionable linkage can be found on both sides of the issue, Mike - not just by the anti-war crowd.