Comments on: War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Unh.

By: VJC

VJC — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:21:21 +0000

Greetings from Ireland.
I’d just like to say that this war is an absolute disgrace. It is all being played out like a reality TV show on the box, and it is warping our percerption of the plain and simple truth. This is a ‘my gun is bigger than your gun’ showdown. And GWs problem is that he thinks everybody is a potential threat. So much so that he is killing the Iraqi children out of self intrest. The threat of terrorism is only going to increase a hundred times over because of the deeper wedge the US administration is forming with the Arab world. Its about time we all realise that reality copies fiction. All the “Terrorist” movies that the Hollywood producers churned out for the latter half of the last century are gonna come back and bite ye on the ass. You can’t declare war on a country because you don’t agree with their ways, or that you believe it is a ‘rogue state’ that breeds terrorism. Take a look in you own back yard first. The increasing distrust of the American government is not a new thing, and indeed its not the only government to be mistrusted. But on the global stage, America’s “stuff and thing” (material desires) are seen as tacky and cheap. Economics is NOT the be all and end all in this world, it is however the trump card that is played to separate the world according to wealth and America as the economic imperialist power who hunts down ’slave’ labour in poorer “unfree” countries………

By: Think

Think — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:09:50 +0000

War is coming now or it’s coming later. Bad things are inevitable. Take bad now or unthinkable later.
Political hoober joobers who think you sound really cool, you suck.

By: devin

devin — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:20:44 +0000

the link

href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:19:44 +0000

This artical isvery interesting. The other natural resouce we all need

By: The Drifter

The Drifter — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:03:13 +0000

huh-huh, jimmy said “vituperative.” huh-huh.

By: DJ SUBg

DJ SUBg — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:10:19 +0000

Saddam, leave Iraq – I invite you to go in with the missus and me in buying a 4-story browstone in Brooklyn (simply unafforadable on our measly salary.)

Tell you what, you can have the top two floors. How are you with kids? We’ll have a little one in three months.

NYC is a tough city, but I’m sure you can handle it.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 03:50:32 +0000

Is there spin coming from Washington? You bet your bippy. Is there just as strong spin coming from Baghdad? Of course there is. I believe that Iraq stopped its nuclear and biological weapons programs just like I believe that US oil interests play no role whatsoever in Washington’s desire for a regime change.

None of what I just wrote is news to anyone. Neither are the facts: the people of Iraq live under the rule of a regime which has a proven history of summary executions, unkept promises of amnesty, ethnic cleansing by use of chemical weapon and unequal human rights for its citizens based on ethnicity, religion and tribe. Further, this regime has had a nuclear weapons program since the mid 1980s, and had it not been for an unauthorized (by the international community) Israeli raid, would most likely have a nuclear weapon at this time.

So what’s the answer? UN sanctions have proven useless. I agree that invasion would stir up an even larger hornets nest. We’ve heard all the arguments why the solutions of the past 10 years (war, sanction, covert assasination attempts) have proven useless. So what do we try now?

Enough armchair politics. Let’s start making real suggestions.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 02:52:48 +0000

Well said, Mr. Blurbomat. Very well said.

By: tara

tara — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 02:14:19 +0000

“How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America’s anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks in history.” -
John le Carre, British spy novelist, in an op-ed article on U.S. foreign policy

1. The American public has not been presented with hard evidence that links Hussein with bin Laden.

2. The American public, nor the UN Security Council has not been presented with hard evidence proving the existence of weapons of mass destuction in Iraq.

3. George Dubyah is playing on the sentiments of a nation pained by tragedy to achieve his own personal goals of attacking Iraq.

4. I live near a Marine Base and while the soliders I’ve spoken to say they believe that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction they say that a war with Iraq will be very ugly for both sides. They also disagree with Bush not letting the UN proceed according to protocol.

We are, my friends, totally fucked.

By: dennis

dennis — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:06:59 +0000

Here’s a better idea: He should stop being a jackass.