Anti-war argument

[crobnson]

All of the anti-war protesting going on simply frustrates me. I get a sense that either they support Saddam and his evil henchmen, are so ignorant that they don't see what is going on over there, or they just don't care about anybody but themselves. They cry freedom of speech, freedom of actions, but if they were in Iraq, they would be without a tongue or dead.

[LibertyThug]

I know, I know...
But, it seems if they don't get it now, they never will...

[najida]

The anti-war protesting makes me a bit testy too....OK, downright mean and pissy...OK, OK....
Dang near dangerous if they catch me too early in the mornin'

My take? For some, it is a lark..trendy (hip huggers, retro music and WEEEE a PEACE RALLY!)

Many of them are young and have never been had to do without, been scared, trapped, terrorised etc...
The are clueless about anything in the rest of the world...
And most of all, very naive (in my circle).

To them, "Geez, war is bad! Can't you see that!" or even funnier, "Now everyone in the world hates us!" (This from one of my former cheerleader students)

This is too real for them, a culture raised on Playstation and Reality TV...
To finally realize that every thing you take for granted are at risk.....What are you willing to do to keep them?

Wow, death is scarey, war is ugly...
Such is the nature of life....The sorrow defines the joy....
The loss of what you hold dearest is what makes you value it most.
I learned that sometimes you have to show your strength to gain respect. Peace is wonderful, but sometimes, it looks like fear or weakness....and can be used to hurt you.
For, me the thing I value most are my freedoms
I can live without hot water, lights, even my mornin' coffee...but not my freedom....and freedom of fear is one I value most...

[crobnson]

I have the same reaction to the activists. There are few people in this world that would say they are pro-"war". To be honest, I have always moved more in the direction of anti-war, although never have protested. As a matter of fact, way, way back when a war was brought up in regards to Iraq I was against it. I didn't want the people to have to suffer. But I decided to get an intense education on the subject and have moved all the way over to the other side. I am 41 years old and have seen a couple of wars in my life. But after everything I have read, pro, anti, Arab, world, politics, education, ok, I have covered ALOT of territory. I believe in balance when it comes to learning about "hot" topics. After all of that I came to the conclusion that the "******" needs to DIE!! And use his henchmen to cover him instead of dirt, they are dirt. To be honest, although I am not in any way a violent person, I would love to watch as Saddam receives at least a few of his own torture tactics. After everything he has done, he was given a chance to run away with his tail between his legs, but he is too egotistic to do that. Done with rant for now. (Uh, don't like that last word.)

[politique]

The conservative argument, as discussed in my posted essay Clash of Practicalities, should not be that the U.S. should intervene on behalf of other countries, it should intervene on its own behalf. This war is not about freeing Iraqis --that's a nice concquence. This war is about protecting this nation from a living threat.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I will be glad to sell you crude oil at $1.50 a gallon
delivered to your front door.

[Starstruck]

Oops. Meant gas, but I'll take all the refined oil you got for $1.50 a gallon.

[Burkeman1]

The gamble we are making is this: We hope to create a successful, prosperous, and free Democratic Iraq with our invasion. We hope that this nation will act as a beacon to the rest of the region and will destabalize their regimes and at the same time negate home grown Islamic fundamentalism that has been seen as the only alternative in the region by it's radicals. If we fail: we have isolated ourselves from even traditional Europeon allies, demonstrated that we are agrressive to the world, and have increased hatred of this nation 100 fold in an already insane part of the world.

Since even our best "ally" in the region- that recieves direct economic and military aid from us- is Turkey and it is a corrupt banana republic once step away from a military junta at all times - the above mentioned plan is totally insane.

Forget the self serving idiotic reasons on the Left on why they hate this war. They are liars and hypocrites. But that doesn't mean this war isn't magically stupid (to borrow a phrase from a friend). We have taken a gamble in this war that was not only ill advised but even a drunken compulsive gambler would not have taken. That is why we should never have gone into this war. Because if we fail- the fallout is far worse than if we had done nothing.

[Mo1]

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