I guess not -
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kyburgDo I need to see that video?
No. I know what it looks like.
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theferrett's take on it - verbose, to the point and perfectly spot-on.
My stance?
I knew this was coming last year. I knew it was coming, and it made me ill to think about it. Beheadings? Mass murder? Prison camps and abuses?
Yes. Because that's what wars do to human beings. It always has. That's why you avoid them. Honest.
Looking at the "frothing at the mouth, let's kill them all, yarryarryarrr" journals this morning, I note first that none of the writers in question have spent any significant time out of country.
Guys, I was in Switzerland in 1990. When there was still a Yugoslavia. I watched that war begin. On the news, in the papers. You got the news on where wars were being fought, who was doing the dirty that day - and what they did.
I watched them sit in their meadows full of wildflowers, cradling their guns and vowing they were ready to war with their own neighbors. But then, it was still only talk. That didn't last long.
Talking trash is about as deadly as depression. Nobody dies until someone picks up a gun and uses it. And then it's too late - and you can't go back.
You don't want Americans to die in Iraq? Well, what are they doing there in the first place? Don't tell me liberation and all that crap. Be a woman in Iraq right now - she'll tell you she far less "liberated" now that she's wearing a burqa and has to carry her water in buckets. When she can get it.
Look at how many other people aren't in Iraq anymore. They're not stupid - or cowards.
Don't ask the news. They're selling soap.
I never thought this was a good idea. I've been angry over a year now.
And now, we can't go back.
The only thing we can do now is stem the hemorrhage. Maybe.
No. I know what it looks like.
Go read
theferrett's take on it - verbose, to the point and perfectly spot-on.My stance?
I knew this was coming last year. I knew it was coming, and it made me ill to think about it. Beheadings? Mass murder? Prison camps and abuses?
Yes. Because that's what wars do to human beings. It always has. That's why you avoid them. Honest.
Looking at the "frothing at the mouth, let's kill them all, yarryarryarrr" journals this morning, I note first that none of the writers in question have spent any significant time out of country.
Guys, I was in Switzerland in 1990. When there was still a Yugoslavia. I watched that war begin. On the news, in the papers. You got the news on where wars were being fought, who was doing the dirty that day - and what they did.
I watched them sit in their meadows full of wildflowers, cradling their guns and vowing they were ready to war with their own neighbors. But then, it was still only talk. That didn't last long.
Talking trash is about as deadly as depression. Nobody dies until someone picks up a gun and uses it. And then it's too late - and you can't go back.
You don't want Americans to die in Iraq? Well, what are they doing there in the first place? Don't tell me liberation and all that crap. Be a woman in Iraq right now - she'll tell you she far less "liberated" now that she's wearing a burqa and has to carry her water in buckets. When she can get it.
Look at how many other people aren't in Iraq anymore. They're not stupid - or cowards.
Don't ask the news. They're selling soap.
I never thought this was a good idea. I've been angry over a year now.
And now, we can't go back.
The only thing we can do now is stem the hemorrhage. Maybe.
