From http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/eveningnews/main541713.shtml
Posted on 03/17/2003 6:31:47 AM PST by Ryan C
You were saying?
You display the same faulty thinking that others like you share. Your heart MAY be in the right place, but your beliefs are based on erroneous assumptions and false interpretations of the facts. If you posted here to stir up emotional reactions like many board-disruptors have done before you, I hope you don't come back.
If you hang around a while and "read to understand" the information posted here, you'll realize you're dead wrong.
That's true It will probably only endear about three-fourths of them to us.
A poll of everyday Iranians shows that the great majority of them believe we are doing a good thing by taking Saddam the Sadist out. The vast majority of everyday Iraqis will also approve, but more joyously, and after the fact (when they no longer fear being shot by Saddam).
Why you jerks support an insane madman like Saddam and his predations on ordinary Muslims is a mystery for the ages.
The Ballad of Sir Robin
Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
--Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
So's your argument. Abu Nidal, Abu Abbas, Zwahiri, HAmas , Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Ansar al Islam....
The list is endless. Husseins support of and sanctuary for terrorists who can't get refuge elsewhere is legendary.
Your thought processes are prejudiced and biased. You allow the Iraqi people the ability to hate our government and not our people, but you don't allow for the possibility that the US is only attacking Saddam, and not the people.
You say things like "I fear what we are going to do to the Iraqi people." We are not attacking the people, we are attacking Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime. If the Iraqi people would take a short 10 day "vacation" outside of Baghdad, they will live.
To us, you appear just as deluded as that airport security guard when you refuse to recognize the evil of tyrannical, murderous government.
You've come to the right place to get honest information and debate about the issues that concern you. You care about the Iraqi people, or you wouldn't have gone to Iraq. So you're misinformed, but not unfeeling.
You care about peace...that's plain because you have put yourself in a dangerous situation in the name of peace, but have you considered the concept of enduring, long-term peace?
My sincere advice is to lay low, take your lumps on this post, and read, read, read. FR participants are some of the most informed, articulate people you'll cyber-meet. I learn something new on this board nearly every day, and often find that my previous bedrock thoughts and beliefs are modified because of the honest debate that goes on here.
Don't assume you're right on everything, and be willing to debate issues with an open mind. No cause is hopeless.
I think the Viking Kittens are napping....this was just as good
"I'll be here until the bombs drop," says volunteer Ryan Clancy.
That pretty much sums it up.
Correction...you had a vacation in Iraq this year, then got your ass home to the United States as soon as it got a bit 'uncomfortable and dangerous'.
Idiot
The people in Iraq realize the sanctions are Saddam the Sadist's gift to them. They despise Saddam but live in a police state where peaceful change is impossible. We are about to make the impossible possible.
And when they are free, they will remember that leftist idiots such as yourself and Chirac were on Saddam's side.
Ah, a Salon Bolsheviki!
Perhaps some of our graphics-gifted FReepers can design a logo and membership card and we can send the very first card to you.
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