Re: Anti-war commercial exploiting the dead
- From: "J" <anon@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:26:39 -0500
"old hoodoo" <alflags@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Was watching loser TV this morning around 4:30AM and saw an anti-war
> commerical useing the majic number of 2,000 dead as a hook to end the
> war.
>
> I am neither pro-war or anti-war. I felt from the get-go that Powells
> arguments were a bunch of double talk conclusions devoid of facts, yet
> I supported the war with the thought that maybe the WMD's was just a ruse
> to get the country motivated to take Iraq and use it as a launching
> pad against terrorism. Unfortunately the Bush administration was serious
> and therefore took Iraq with the wrong intentions and thus the
> wrong end game which has led to a "messopotamia" (thank you John).
>
> However, for an antiwar movement to use the 2,000 honored dead
Of course, in your view, it's perfectly fine for GWBush to refer to 2,000
honored dead as having made a sacrifice to defend freedom and liberty when,
in fact, our freedom and liberty were never in jeopardy.
I understand -- just another Republicon hypocrite. Thanks for clearing up
that point.
JS
> as an
> attempt to emotionally appeal to the lowest common denomiator of public
> opinion to push anti-war hysteria is, well, something one would expect
> out of the Bush administration who attempts to justify the war with the
> same 2,000 dead.
>
> The war has clearly been wrongly executed, but even if properly executed
> the dead might still be dead--the heroic dead are not the issue, heck the
> military has still lost fewer dead in three years than civilians that were
> killed in minutes on 9/11... But the basic rationalization for the war is
> still justified...if we do what we
> should have done when it started...not focusing on Iraq's internal
> problems but concentrating on the war on terror which includes the
> capture/killing of Osama Bin Laden as well as knocking the crap out of
> those areas that feed terrorism.
>
> We have missed and/or failed to exploit opportunities since the invasion.
> Its time to regroup and reenergize what we started in the first place...to
> destroy the infrastructure of global terrorism. Iraq
> will, in the long run, take care of itself.
>
> We should not forget 9/11 for what it was. It was not a signal for
> the liberation of Iraq, but a signal that it was time for the USA to
> face and defeat fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. Iraq can still be
> used for the base of operations it should have been.
>
>
>
>
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