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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: infinite59 on May 16, 2002, 05:49:32 AM
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There's a Better Target than Iraq
by Harry Browne
The Bush administration appears to be gearing up
for an all-out attack on Iraq -- because George
Bush has said "I made up my mind that Saddam needs
to go."
The politicians justify this invasion of another
nation with all sorts of reasons -- such as
Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, his supposed
possession of "weapons of mass destruction," and
his support for the Palestine Liberation
Organization. And if all else fails to convince,
the _coup de grace_ is always "He even gassed his
own people!" (as though that provides
constitutional authority for our politicians to
attack another country).
Let's Go for the Big Game
But if these are reasons to invade someone,
there's a government that's done all these things
on a much larger scale -- which would seem to
justify having an international military force
attack it to make things right.
In just the past two decades, that government has
conducted unprovoked military invasions of three
other countries and attacked at least four others.
It possesses several times as many nuclear weapons
as Iraq might have. And it has supported terrorist
operations and military dictators in many
countries.
And to top it off, the government was caught
red-handed gassing its own citizens!
Name That Country
What government has done all these things?
Obviously, the U.S. government.
It has:
* Invaded Grenada, Iraq, and Panama -- not one of
which attacked the U.S. in any way.
* Attacked Libya, Serbia, Afghanistan, and the
Sudan -- not one of which attacked the U.S. (No
one has suggested that the government of
Afghanistan or its people were behind the
September 11 attacks.)
* An enormous stockpile of "weapons of mass
destruction" -- nuclear, chemical, and biological.
(How safe do you think foreigners feel, knowing
our government has such a stockpile and is so
eager to attack other countries?)
* Supported such vile characters as Manuel
Noriega, the Taliban, Ferdinand Marcos, and others
(all of which the U.S. government itself labeled
as evil people), not to mention dozens of
dictators in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
And the _piece de resistance_ is the U.S.
government's use of poisonous CS gas (banned by
international convention) to kill 80 Branch
Davidians at Waco in 1993.
Is there a difference between what our government
and Saddam Hussein have done? Only in degree, not
in kind.
Those who try to explain this away usually fall
back on a simple principle: whatever our
government has done was for good reason, whatever
our enemies do is bad.
But killing innocent people, invading foreign
countries, bullying the world are wrong -- no
matter who does them.
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HA HA HA HA
Fuckin punk ass motherfuckers
"If you diss me you diss yourself"
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w0rd!
-{bLaDe}
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No ones gonna invade the U.S. for another 50 years. Besides, there's a change from within, that'd be like invading France during a revolution, pointless. Let what happens happens, and I personally say get rid of Bush. Non of this shit happened when Clinton was president.
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Whoa, Im impressed wit this.....
Altho it's very logical when u look deep within.....
Word on Harry Browne's Analyzation.
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Whoa, Im impressed wit this.....
Altho it's very logical when u look deep within.....
Yeah.. I never looked at the whole situation like that before.. but it makes alotta sense and there is alotta logic in it
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well...i can"t say that this GUY is pointing out anythang we didn"t know...yes tha U.S has ego-centric interests concerning the economical erea, and yes...all kinds of not- so-morally correct things were comitted due to usa"z economical targets...but look, every country has it"z personal interests(oh... and by ellecting "republicans" you increase this tendency btw...so it showes tha majority is for this typa actions in USA-not that it"s good)....at least USA is not a dectatorship....it followes the human rights, democracy....weeell... formally and in most cases, at least....
yall wouldn"t want Sadam having all tha re-sources USA has...believe me...so i kinda see this article as somewhat speculative.