Now, with all of that admitted, can you tell me how any of it has anything to do with my original question? Here, I’ll repeat for you:
Can one of you peacenik douchebags explain what the U.S. could do, short of everyone converting to Islam, to make the terrorists happy?
Calling me a coward is fine, possibly even fair. Doesn’t answer the question, though.
I have stated my view on this before. You act as if there is a solution (through force) where the world will be in perfect balance (for the US). What you fail to realize is there will always be discontent from some source. This will never end it is human nature. And, unlike the current power base in America who falsely believes that one can attain this utopian state of bad guys not existing and good guys ruling the world, I wood like to have leaders in office who would rather govern from a place of sanity and reality.
I have said this before and I will now say it again, Saddam was a paper tiger and the fact that he wasn’t holding to a U.N. resolutions was hardly an excuse to invade. The only justifiable reason for invasion which Bush and company manipulated everyone on was “Mushroom cloud over US” “Imminent threat” “Can launch WMD to American shores within forty five minutes” none of which were proven to be true for those of us who knew this was BULLSHIT from the start. Those reasons would have been the only justifiable reasons to start war to invade another country.
Saddam could have been delt with on numerous diplomatic and even lethal covert means to get rid of him that would have been effective albeit taken more time, but patience in my opinion is warranted when you are talking about American and innocent Iraqi lives. Call me a peacenick, I just have that weak stupid value for human life.
No these alternatives weren’t explored because the Bush camp thought, yes, Strategic control benefiting the U.S., but also lucrative profits for you guessed it Good ol Dick Cheney’s old company Haliburton. We can kill two birds with one stone get our desired strategic power-base and rake in some powerful profits for our buddies in the oil business. No, No, you say that is preposterous? Even though Bush and Cheney come from big corp. America and Oil money this could never be true, again, PREPOSTEROUS.
So, let’s see was Iraq an imminent threat. Well, from the Bush camps perspective what does it matter! We can start our invasion and you know what because everybody loves “FREEDOM” American style we will crush any resistance and then the joyous populace will greet us with flowers so , then all the doubters will be forced to shut up, we have our strategic power and Haliburton has it’s fingers in all of the oil business dealings and life is grand.
But, wait a minute, if it doesn’t work out, and we will only spend a few seconds focusing on this side of the fence, why should we care? It’s not like the twins are in the 3RD Armored Calvary Unit. Dickey are any of your daughters in the Army or nieces or nephews? What’s that no? Good, good, you Rumsfield, Wolfowitz? No, good!
You know if we rush into this and it doesn’t turn out very good its just middle class and poor Americans who will be dying and losing arms and legs. And, you know what the good part is? Most of em don’t care!!! Yeah, just get em whipped up on patriotism, and the bible, and thrown in “Will put a boot up your ass” song by that big country singer dude who like us never served and they will be more then happy to die for us!
But, hey let’s not think like that because thats not gonna happen. Let’s forget about history lessons of the past and what happens when you try to forcibly change and control a country that doesn’t want to be controlled.
What we’ll do is this, we’ll put a tight lock on the media so we don’t have to deal with that damn Vietnam era death on the evening news every night and we won’t show civilian causalities for the freedom starving Iraqi’s. We’ll sanitize this and if one of those pesky idiots who disagrees with us says anything we’ll tell em shut up asswipe don’t you know we built a school yesterday, but we won’t tell about the twenty kids killed by friendly fire who won’t be going to that school. Nope, not a word of that.
From my perspective doogie there were many other alternatives. The world as we know it wasn’t going to end if we didn’t invade Iraq. The experts knew it but were laughed at when the said it. The world, the US, England isn’t any safer from Terrorism and the meat grinder that is Iraq grinds on daily until one day when someone finally has the sense whether it finally is Bush or the next President who says this waste is going to stop and stops it.
It it is Bush, he will never admit to total failure instead he will paint some rosy picture about giving them freedom and withdraw leaving a power vacuum for our enemies which may eventually drag us into WWIII nuclear holocaust.
But, hey that’s just fine with you, you aren’t feeling the pain yet and maybe you never will. So, doogie, i am not going to quit driving to work and lose my job, but what I will do whenever a forum lends it self to it, I will share my opinion in the hopes that it will influence one person to open their eyes and see this wacked out wreckless administration for what it is and vote them out of office.
I will say this at least you acknowledge you may be a coward for not participating in something you are so vocally in support of!