Streisand's Thoughts on Iraq

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Thoughts on Iraq

Bush’s explanation in his State of the Union speech for why we need to attack Iraq right now was unconvincing. Here are a couple of questions that have not been answered:

Where is the link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein? Not only has the Bush administration given us zero evidence of a connection, but many experts think that a connection is unlikely given the fact that one society is secularist and the other is fundamentalist... There is no reason to think that they are on the same side, fighting for the same cause.

Is the fact that Saddam Hussein has violated a United Nations resolution really a justified reason for going to war? Many countries have violated specific U.N. resolutions and not provoked war. A prime and very current example of that is North Korea, which has violated U.N. resolutions and treaties as they pursue a nuclear arms program, but which we feel we can contain through diplomacy ... could this be because they don’t have oil?

Here are some recent articles from prominent foreign policy experts that explain more about why I am opposed to this war right now:

“Empty Promises” New York Times editorial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31FRI1.html

Stephen Pelletiere: “A War Crime or an Act of War?” New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html

“Butler: U.S. Guilty of ‘Double Standards’ on Iraq”, Rueters:
www.rueters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2125958

“The True War is with Phantoms”: by Shibley Telhami:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suncommentary/la-oe-telhami2feb02,0,114226.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dsuncomment

“Paying for War” by Bill Moyers:
http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers18.html

“An Alternative to War” by Jimmy Carter:
http://www.cartercenter.org/viewdoc.asp?docID=1165&submenu=news

“Bush Doesn’t Want Good News” by Robert Scheer:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030127&s=scheer20030114

“War is Not Yet Necessary” by Jessica Matthews:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52631-2003Jan27.html

“The Sketch: Blair Astonishes Onlookers with a Frank Answer to Parliament’s Grey Beards” by Simon Carr:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/simon_carr/story.jsp?story=371597

[Davis]

More from Streisand's friends...

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Thanks for starting my day out right!

Yer welcome. It's why I post the funny stuff here. To brighten a day here and there.

[Stew Padasso]

I look forward to these types of articles. Thanks for posting.

http://www.libertyteeth.com/babs%20boogy.htm

[freekitty]

BS talks about zero. I would say that applies to what is going on in her head. Absolutely zero. Nada, nothing.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I think Hollywood should be the next target in the War on Terror. Incoming.

[AlabamaRebel]

"Where is the link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein? Not only has the Bush administration given us zero evidence of a connection, but many experts think that a connection is unlikely given the fact that one society is secularist and the other is fundamentalist... There is no reason to think that they are on the same side, fighting for the same cause."

There is proof of a link between them because al Qaeda has training camps in North Iraq.

The US and USSR were and are two very different society's but they stood together against the Nazi's in the final years of WWII.

And who are these "many experts", The folks who live in fantasy land around Hollywierd?

"Is the fact that Saddam Hussein has violated a United Nations resolution really a justified reason for going to war? Many countries have violated specific U.N. resolutions and not provoked war. A prime and very current example of that is North Korea, which has violated U.N. resolutions and treaties as they pursue a nuclear arms program, but which we feel we can contain through diplomacy ... could this be because they don’t have oil?"

Korea could become a war real quick, we have more troops moving into the area. Does she not pay attention?

[Snowy]

I wouldn't worry too much about what that crowd thinks. I have a feeling that what Powell has to say will make all of her 'points' meaningless. I wish we could convince her like to become human shields. :)

[Question_Assumptions]

I was thinking more in terms of an oxymoron when I read "Streisand's Thoughts".

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I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

[Entropy Squared]

Streisand's thoughts run as deep as Clinton's ethics.

[Valin]

Streisand's Thoughts on Iraq

She had a thought, WOW! I wonder where she bought it?

[paul51]

Education: High school

Wonder if she finished

[Valin]

Is the fact that Saddam Hussein has violated a United Nations resolution really a justified reason for going to war?
short answer yes!

Many countries have violated specific U.N. resolutions and not provoked war.
And how many of them have
1 gone to war TWICE in the last twenty years?
2 committed genocide against their own people?
3 Tried to kill an american president?
4 Blew up oil wells?
5 Used his people as human shield?
I could go on.

[r9etb]

Oh. There's words there. I figured there wouldn't be anything beyond the headline.

Of course as far as I'm concerned, there isn't anything there anyway, because I have more important things to do than read what Babs has to say. Got some nose hairs that need trimming, for example.

[ChemistCat]

Is Barbra Streisand, herself, actually literate?

[HHFi]

Thank you for posting this. The phrase "Streisand's Thoughts" will now go into my collection of the funniest oxymorons, right next to "Jumbo Shrimp."

[Vigilanteman]

Is her inhaler connected to 20 gallon air compressor in order to reach the heights of her nasal turbinates?

No, but the last time she had a nose job, her plastic surgeon asked if he could keep the old one . . . for a spare waiting room.

[Terridan]

I resent the title claiming thoughts provided by babra.
Oxymoron? ;) Best wishes...

[Greybird]

>> Education: High school <<

> Wonder if she finished <

Yes. Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., January 1959. She was an honors student.

I don't believe for one minute that she wrote the pieces on her Website herself, though. Not after witnessing an astonishing and highly ungrammatical typed-on-line Q&A session she gave on AOL in November 1998.

[DeaconRed]

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