From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 21:49:28 BST
> [Case]
> Beyond the rich fantasy life of the Bush administration there is nothing to
> suggest that Iraq was a threat to us.
Every Western country said Saddam had WMD. Hardly a fantasy of the Bush
administration.
> The terrorism going on now in Iraq is
> the result of our actions, so in that sense you would have to say that
> instead of reducing the threat of terrorism we have actually increased it.
I know. Like your hero Chomsky, you blame terrorism on the U.S. We deserve
to get killed.
> [Case]
> Are you really saying we should kill everyone we suspect of threatening us?
Would you not want to prevent someone from killing you?
> > Liberate them from a brutal dictatorship?. Are you against that?
>
> [Case]
> That was never stated as a reason for our invasion until it was clearly
> shown that the reason we had been given were wrong.
So are you against liberating them from a brutal dictatorship?
> If we want to make
> liberating people from dictatorships a cornerstone of our foreign policy,
> it might get some support but we are going to have a lot more countries to
> invade than just this one. I notice that we really only care about freedom
> unless there is oil involved. Once again the reduction of all value to
> economic value.
Of course our interests are partially economic, or would you rather live
in a tent huddling around a campfire to keep warm?
Platt
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