You make it all so complicated.

Post #116,483 by marlowe 9/3/03 1:29:10 PM Reply	You make it all so complicated. It's really quite simple. Whoever is known to have committed acts of terrorist violence against civilians is the enemy. Of humanity. And anyone who supports such a person is a willing accomplice. Such as, for example, Saddam, and those people who opposed his removal from power. To the [link\|http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=12252\|wilfully muddleminded], everything is complicated. He mistakes this state of mind for sophistication, but it's really just moral bankruptcy stemming from [link\|http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/08/Transnationalprogressivis.shtml\|intellectual backwardness]. (Is it just me or is there something late-medieval about the premises of transnational progressivism? It seems not so much post-democratic as pre-democratic. I can see how it would appeal to a self-styled elite. For them it owuld be an entirely self serving position.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- DEAL WITH IT. Americans: a pack, not a herd. Never mind all the mass graves. Where's the nerve gas? [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
Post #116,497 by jake123 9/3/03 6:03:19 PM Reply	Pretty simple question Who are they? If you don't know the answer to that, flailing around striking (usually) innocent bystanders just makes you an out of control bully. The rest of the stuff has absolutely nothing to do with the question I asked... your inclusion of that other stuff makes you look like the muddle-minded one. What's the death toll of US and British forces now? You yourself have said you're going to have to be there for years, pay for it all too, and all the while ten to twenty Americans are going to die each week, which is a very real shame. You know why gas prices are going up? Up here, it was pretty clear; they started going up the second day after the pipeline got blown up. So... very little chance of making any money off the place in the meantime; in la politique du pire, they don't have to beat you, they just have to make your life insufferable, and it's a technique that history has shown works. It's a quagmire! Welcome to the new American Century. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #116,526 by pwhysall 9/4/03 1:56:40 AM Reply	That makes us terrorists, then. We launched cruise missiles at Baghdad fully knowing that it was going to kill civilians. And, to compound the sin, we started doing it by stealth from a submarine, the HMS Trafalgar. I eagerly await a regime change. When do you invade? Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #116,545 by Silverlock 9/4/03 9:06:28 AM Reply	When? Right after .... .... we finish invading ourselves. We are hiring Saddam's civilian-terrorizing thugs to track down other thugs. As Marlowe says, "Whoever is known to have committed acts of terrorist violence against civilians is the enemy. Of humanity. And anyone who supports such a person is a willing accomplice. Unlike the Brits, our missiles are precision guided and wouldn't even explode if they landed in a civilian neighborhood. They might miss the entire country they were aimed at though. ----------------------------------------- It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand. Mike Royko
Post #116,665 by Ashton 9/4/03 8:30:56 PM Reply	Brevity Award! - Sig-Grade___with 2 dead olive branches

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