posted on March 4, 2003 10:36:34 AM new
I found this commentary in the local paper today. It's one of the Hearst newspapers. I hope some will take a minute to read it. Nothing about the commies in the back ground but some items, many may not have thought about. Especially Mr. History.
posted on March 4, 2003 10:49:00 AM new
Great article
Saddam Hussein's mouthpiece, the newspaper Babel, which is run by his son, Uday, has praised the demonstrators for inflicting "humiliating international isolation" on Britain and the United States and for ushering in "a new chapter in the global balance of power."
Yep...global balance with the likes of Saddam at their helm.
The demonstators are thereby making war more -- not less -- likely. Have read that before....and agree totally. Proof is shown by Saddam and his son's statements. Made them feel they have a stronger case to not cooperate with the UN. Sad
posted on March 4, 2003 11:15:47 AM new
I have the desire, and the means, to kill every single other person in the world. There are about 6 billion of them. Should you protest? No, because if you cause me to pause, I'll just carry it out in 10 years, and by then there will be about 7 billion of them. You'll be responsible for the deaths of 1 billion people, which you could have prevented, had you just rolled over and let me kill the 6 billion or so in the beginning.
posted on March 4, 2003 11:19:58 AM new
I checked the link I left and It seems okay. Maybe it's your browser. You must be getting a different website.
Amen,
clean the temp files off your computer,
Reverend Colin
posted on March 4, 2003 12:22:25 PM new
A North Vietnamese general admitted that they considered proposing a peace treaty after their disasterous Tet Offensive, but the huge American anti-war protests encouraged them to keep fighting. Ironic.
posted on March 4, 2003 12:34:47 PM new
You wanted me to look at it, Colin? I did. Not only are his facts historically incorrect, but his conclusions are not logic or portray any common sense. Yet, if this is the kind of stuff that you like to read . . .
posted on March 4, 2003 12:55:25 PM new
Critic it.
What's incorrect?
One man' logic is another's mania.
Logic, like morals, truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. Logic may be usefull in engineering and the sciences but has little to do with politics and the human condition.
I Read everything, from the far right to the far left. Personally I like humor.
posted on March 4, 2003 06:05:16 PM new
>SIGH!< If you two really must inquire, I'll clue you into ONE problem with it. That isn't to say that it is the ONLY problem.
History is written with a slant, that is, with a slant to the Winner or Ruling Party or whoever hired the scribe to write the history. To gain significant and correct knowledge of historical events, the researcher/reader is forced to find more than one reliable source before to sift through the bias, and even then, there is often no way to really know the true facts.
Here we have, in that article, some dope who not only tries to recite historical facts, but actually puts his own slant on them! That compounds the problem of trying to get a true and accurate historical picture.
Of course, the slob may have the qualifications; i.e. a Harvard Professor of War History of the United States of America or other very real qualifications to be able to take pure facts and put them into his own perspective; however, that was not evident in the article, so I have no idea who he is or if he is qualified to educate me or not on the issue.
Also, he would have had to put in a disclaimer that his interpretations have the following exceptions or possibilities for being incorrect, reasons (a), (b), (c), (d), etc. Without both his credentials for interpretation and a disclaimer, such as you find in respectable works, it is worthless, unless you enjoy reading that sort of baseless historical assumptions.
Must I go on?
Colin, I don't set any Rules here or make up any Rules (I do suggest them as is everyone's right. Take it or leave it.) If your intent is to get me to take a look at historical facts and have someone give a conclusion to me instead of me reaching my own conclusions through the facts presented (and there is a precise method for that with footnotes, etc.) then at least make sure that the person is actually qualified to give out that opinion as credible. Otherwise, it's just another Rush Limbaugh preying upon the reader's ignorance of history and the reader's unwillingness to educate themselves on the facts and decide for themselves what the case may be.
posted on March 5, 2003 07:11:41 AM new
Fact- if it doesn't agree with a far left ideology, it must be made up from an unrelible source, if it does agree with far left ideology, it must be true and reliable.
What the man said in the article is true. These "peace" protests are composed of dupes and active agents against the interests of the US.
One musical "star" stated at her concert that she actually wanted the US to lose in any conflict against Iraq, that the US deserved to be defeated. It was Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders.
Imagine this- wishing that American soldiers are killed so that a murderous dictator can survive and kill more.
Although it is not possible, I would like her ilk to be deported to places like Iraq. She would last a week before they cut her head off.
Sad
