"A Forced Tour of the Iraq Torture Chambers for Garofalo?" by the ChronWatch Founder, Jim Sparkman
''War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.''
---John Stewart Mill, 1859
Interesting article suggesting that those opposed to war under any circumstance come face to face with the mind numbing reality of how opposing war in all circumstances has the effect of allowing cruel dictatorships to continue brutal oppression.
While sometimes I still can't fully grasp the rationale for the war in Iraq. I am glad the people have been "liberated" from Saddam, but the reason we went in there still seems muddy to me.
Even as much as I don't like the inhumanity of war sometimes it the only thing that can stop greater inhumanity. I believe this is sympathetic to "just war" theology.
Personally, I wish that people living in countries run by third world thugs would overthrow their own dictatorships on their own, without the loss of U.S. service people.
Of course, the John Stewart Mill quote was talking about slavery in the U.S. That's a case where I wonder if there were any routes other than war to have accomplished the end of slavery. After all many nations gave up human slavery without civil war. In these cases the slave owners were compensated for there losses.
---John Stewart Mill, 1859
''Though you claim no knowledge of these acts, you are still individually and collectively responsible for these atrocities, for they were committed by a government elected to office and continued in office by your indifference to organized brutality.''
---Army Chaplain George G. Wood
The interesting bit about that is that we, the U.S. enabled Iraq in the early 80's by befriending the enemy of our enemy.
---Army Chaplain George G. Wood
YOU AMERICAN TWIT.THE CHIEF REASON FOR INVASION OF IRAQ IS THE OIL.ITS SO TRANSPARENTLY EVIDENT ONLY A FOOL WOULD DISAGREE.HAS NOT THE US DONE THIS BEFORE IN THE PHILLIPINES AND DO WE NOT HAVE A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AND MURDER IN EVERY SINGLE NATION ON THE EARTH.DISHONOR IS KILLING INNOCENT MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND IN THIS THE U.S. EXCELS.WHETHER HANGING BLACK PEOPLE FROM TREES, SHOOTING THE UNARMED IN THE BACK, TO INSTITUTING PUPPET GOVERNMENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD TO DESTROY DEMOCRATIC NATIONS.THIS IS YOUR LEGACY.
Did you know that your "Caps Lock" key was on? That was a nice little fit you just posted and posted again, and again. "Transparently evident"? -that's a great one, something easily seen yet...transparent. Brilliant. What I don't understand about your statement is the complete lack of the phrase "as shown by". Back up the smack or it will be "transparently evident" that you have no idea what you are saying. "transparently obvious", I love that...