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victorwootenfan
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 Posted - 03/19/2003 : 11:13:28 PM
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'Mr. Bush goes for the kill'
Date: Sunday, March 09 @ 09:48:27 EST
Topic: War & Terrorism
By Terry Jones, The Observer
<http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,910024,00.html>
[Terry Jones writes regularly for The Observer. To all those readers who have written in to ask if this Terry Jones had anything to do with Monty Python, the answer is yes.]
Mr. Bush is right, Saddam Hussein is a nasty man and nobody I know has the least objection to Mr. Bush killing him. It's just the way he proposes doing it that worries me. Dropping 3000 bombs in 48 hours on Baghdad is going to kill a lot of other people who, as far as I am aware, are not nasty at all.
That's the bit of the 'moral' argument I don't follow. It's a bit like the police saying they know a murderer comes from the south of England so they are going to execute everybody in Epsom.
Then again why does Mr. Bush need to drop 3000 bombs on Saddam Hussein? I would have thought one would have been enough to take him out, if he knows where Saddam is. And if he doesn't know where he is, what on earth is the moral justification for dropping any bombs at all? Doesn't Mr. Bush realise they are dangerous things and tend to kill people when they land?
Or does Mr Bush simply enjoy the idea of taking out a lot of Iraqis? I
appreciate Mr. Bush's argument that because Saddam Hussein has refused to take any notice of the UN, Mr. Bush should teach him a lesson by dropping a lot of bombs on him. But now he's telling us that if the UN won't give him permission to do it, he's jolly well going to drop a lot of bombs on Saddam anyway. In which case won't Mr. Bush be guilty of the same thing he's accusing Saddam Hussein of? Apparently not because, according to the President's advisers, if the United Nations won't give him permission to drop a lot of bombs on Saddam Hussein, it will have ceased to be a Responsible World Organization and therefore he doesn't need to take any notice of it.
But doesn't the same thing go for Saddam Hussein? If the United Nations
ceases to be a Responsible World Organization how can the fact that Saddam Hussein has refused to take any notice of it be something so evil that it justifies dropping bombs on the poor people living under his heel?
And that's another thing - everyone seems to be very certain that dropping a lot of bombs on Baghdad will get rid of Saddam Hussein. But will it? - any more than devastating Afghanistan (and killing maybe 20,000 people) got rid of Al-Qaeda? A recent UN report reckons that if and when the US starts bombing as many as 100,000 Iraqis will die.
I can't really believe that the President of the United States gets his
rocks off by having people killed. That's more like Saddam Hussein.
And yet it worries me that Mr. Bush says that one of the reasons he wants to kill a lot of Iraqis is because Saddam Hussein has also been killing them. Is there some sort of rivalry here?
Back in 1988 Saddam killed several thousand at once, in the town of
Halabjah. Since then he's been carrying on the good work, but on a piecemeal basis. In fact, for all I know, since his 1988 spree, he may not have killed any more of his own citizens than George W. Bush did as Governor of Texas. When Mr. Bush became Governor in 1995, the average number of executions per year was 7.6. Mr. Bush succeeded in quadrupling this to a magnificent 31.6 per year. He must have had the terrible chore of personally signing over 150 death warrants while he was Governor. I suppose the advantage of killing Iraqis is that you don't have to sign a piece of paper for every one of them. Just one quick scribble and - bingo! You can kill a hundred thousand and no questions asked! What's more, nobody is going to quibble about some
of them being mentally retarded or juveniles, which is what happened to
George W. Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
I'm not saying that George W. Bush shouldn't be allowed to kill as many
people as he wants. After all he is the unelected leader of the most
powerful country on earth, so if he can't do anything he likes, who can?
And, in the years to come, we can confidently look forward to a lot more killing all over the world - certainly a lot more than ever Saddam Hussein managed in his own country.
(c) Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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pcbTIM
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Posted - 03/20/2003 : 04:23:56 AM
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| Alright Monty Python! Way to stick it to the man. By the way, where is this 49% support for war? I don't think I've met a single person yet who supports the war. |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 03/20/2003 : 08:09:30 AM
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where is this 49% support for war? I don't think I've met a single person yet who supports the war.
Come to my house! Husband and daughter(who has a professor she loves who is an older man and is filling her head with all kinds of pro war ideas)Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Can I live with someone else, PLEASE????? hehehe |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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CPPJames
Yak Addict
Fyro Macedonia
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Posted - 03/20/2003 : 09:55:20 AM
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Well, if you haven't met a single person that supports the war...then you're spending too much TIMe here =). I'm actually surprised the figure isn't higher.
I personally believe the honus is/was upon Saddam Hussein. All the man had to do was hop in a plane, and fly to Bahrain. Knowing this, he disregarded it and ultimately may cause the deaths of thousands of Iraqis. Dude needs to go, people need to die.
You'd be surprised how many people would also accept 1000 of our soldiers dying for prices at the pump to drop by a dollar per gallon. |
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't. |
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victorwootenfan
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2003 : 2:01:59 PM
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Will You be my mommy?
Hell yes!!!! hehehe |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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tericee
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Posted - 03/20/2003 : 8:36:55 PM
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Public Approves of Bush Ultimatum by More Than 2-to-1 Margin
Most Americans worried about war, but expect success
by David W. Moore
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- President George W. Bush announced last night that Saddam Hussein has but 48 hours to leave Iraq or face war. A quick reaction poll by CNN/USA Today and Gallup finds more than 2-to-1 support for that ultimatum. The poll, conducted in the hour and a half after Bush's address to the nation, also finds that about a third of those who approve of Bush's decision are unsure about the merits of war, but are simply following the president's lead. While most Americans are worried about the possibility of war within the next few days, four of five expect the United States to prevail. But a much smaller number, 53%, believe war with Iraq will make the United States safer.
Overall, 66% of Americans approve of Bush's decision to go to war unless Saddam Hussein leaves Iraq within 48 hours, while 30% disapprove.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030318.asp |
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
2579 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2003 : 4:03:44 PM
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Approval is up...
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Arthen
Alien Abductee
USA
4845 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2003 : 1:22:12 PM
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| Now they are taking bets on when Saddam Hussein will flee or be killed. |
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tericee
Alien Abductee
USA
2579 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2003 : 02:37:14 AM
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Who is "they?" Media? Military? Bookies?
(not trying to be impertinent; just curious) |
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Great Iraqi/Bush Arguement
