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Registered: October 30, 2002
Posts: 608
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"I especially hate the Iraq war, it was compleately unecicary and killed many innocent people. There were no weopons of mass distruction and we don't need to bomb and kill innocent civilians just to find one man, which, BTW, would not even be in power if the first Bush had not put him there."
Ah, I see. So you would have preferred we let that "one man" stay in power, after he started two wars before hand, killed many more innocent people (intentionally I might add, through torture, Chemical weapons, and mutilation.), and had a record of attempting to develop those WMDS which you insist didn't exist (even though he didn't let Inspectors in and never accounted for the Bio-Chemical agents or WMD programs he was supposed to have gotten rid of?)? Yes, we should have gotten rid of him earlier. But we’ve done the right thing by taking Saddam out. We’ve also made other tin-pot dictators think twice about WMD development. Libya (quite possibly the most oppressive country on earth, and also now in charge of UN human rights) for example recently said it will stop its own WMD program.
"In the past, war were fought in the battlefeilds, soldier against soldier, not US missile against innocent family. War was allways horrible, especially when they used to have the draft, which, thankfully I don't think America has anymore , but now that regular civilains are getting killed and bombed, it is even more sad."
Civilians have always gotten killed in wars. Ever hear of a little thing called Dresden, or the Mai Lai massacre? While this is tragic, you can also say that overthrowing a thug like Saddam, Hitler, etc. justifies war.
"As someone ( I don't know who, though) once said, 'war doesn't proove who's right, it only prooves who's left', which is true."
Bertrand Russell said that. But to say that no war can be justified or moral is nonsense. The Allies were certainly morally superior to the Axis during WWII for instance. The Americans were definitely morally superior to the Stalinist Koreans in the Korean War too. War is terrible, but then to quote another person:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. … A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice-is often the means of their regeneration."
-John Stuart Mill
"Make peace, not war!"
There will never be peace so long as evil such as the Ba'ath Regime, or the Taliban, or the Terrorists remain. The only peace that will exist will be the peace of a graveyard. I don’t like war, but I also don’t like the sort of false “peace” which too many people allow to continue. War is hell, but so is living life under a gangster like Saddam Hussein.
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