posted on March 7, 2003 09:26:03 AM new
From the "Non Compos Mentis" Files: "If you think back to our founding as a country, we are a country of revolution. ...One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind
(sic) of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown." --Ohio Demo Rep. Marcy Kaptur, likening Osama bin Laden to George Washington
Elsewhere in the vacant mental landscape of the Left -- those assuredly out of their right minds -- several human shields who voluntarily entered Iraq seem to have gotten over their confusions, now realizing that their actions would not be the symbolic self-congratulatory posturing they do so well in the West. They were meant to die. Approximately 70 of 200-250 total human shields have departed Iraq, out of concern over their safety, after being placed at strategic rather than humanitarian sites. Nathan Chapman fled back to Jordan, then admitted, "OK, honestly, I was terrified the whole time I was there. There could be civil war, getting killed, being taken hostage by the [Iraqi] government, being mentally destroyed, all kinds of things. I don't think they [the other human shields] did have that understanding."
And those celebrity Leftists (Gloria Steinem, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, Jesse Jackson, Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Ed Asner, Rabbi Michael Lerner, et al.) are still using the current threat from Iraq to do what they do best -- evoke anti-American sentiment and incite anti-American action across our great nation.
posted on March 7, 2003 09:30:54 AM new
If opposing war makes you anti-American, does supporting war and the killing of innocent men, women and children make you American? Hmmm
Just because I oppose war, it does not make me anti-American.
posted on March 7, 2003 09:38:27 AM new
bear1949,No bear, nothing like the revolution,with eye to eye,hand to hand combat.
We are going against a Nation,and they believe we intend to wipe out their religous beliefs,this will unite them all against us.Our leaders go blindly against an enemy they dont really see,and will never understand.
We are to fight people, who have little to live for,and their only glory is martyrdom.
posted on March 7, 2003 09:42:29 AM new
Actually, as proven the last time we were there, we fight people who don't want to fight and only Saddam's threat of death keeps them there, they will be standing up throwing down their guns and putting their arms in the air faster than we can get them rounded up...
Only the republican guards will fight with any ferocity... and they will die.
posted on March 7, 2003 06:05:50 PM new
I am not against the war due to anti-American sentiments. I will support the troops. I will tie yellow ribbons around my trees. I will fly the flag. I will pray they all come home safely.
I am not against the war because I think Saddam Hussein is somehow being treated unfairly. He is a vicious cold-blooded killer who has squandered the lives of his own citizens and anyone else who comes in range.
I am not against the war because I disbelieve that Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
I am against the war because I believe he does. I am against it because I fear that, backed against the wall, he will unleash hell on anyone who comes near. That in the aftermath of his removal, Iraq will be shredded by militant groups and the U.S. will have no choice but to back the powers that are keeping Hussein in office now. That Turkey will seize the opportunity to strike militarily at the Kurdish militias in the north of Iraq, causing the large population of Kurds in Turkey itself to rise up and spawning more bloody conflict. That the entire Middle East will be thrown into turmoil, and that we'll watch a ripple of destablization move across other trouble spots around the globe.
I'm against the war because the United States cannot be policeman to the world. There are other dictators at least as bad as Hussein. Some of them control Saudi Arabia. If the Middle East does ignite, the United States will probably be called on to lend aid to a Saudi regime that almost certainly provided more assistance to al Quaida than Iraq ever dreamed of.
I'm against the war because we're going to have to go it very nearly alone, with few allies. Anyone who goes with us - starting with Tony Blair - is likely to be punished by their own constituencies on the strength of their support for this action. That makes it even less likely that we will find allies in the future.
I'm against this war because I don't know how much it's going to cost, and I don't think the President knows either. And what really worries me is that I don't think the President cares.
posted on March 7, 2003 07:42:01 PM new
"What if [Saddam Hussein] fails to comply [with inspections] and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop ... weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal."
No, those words are not the latest on Iraqi "regime change" from President Bush, but the words of Prevaricator-in-Chief Bill Clinton way back in 1998 -- four UNaccountable resolutions and one 9-11 ago.
posted on March 7, 2003 08:25:30 PM new
Well-written, msincognito.
My only addition would be the likely attempts to accelerate, within our country, further civil rights restrictions and the suppression of political opposition.
