Never taken a course in logic, Vespiasian and never claimed to be intelligent. Other people just keep saying I do which I interpret to mean they are the ones who think I am. 😀 Am perfectly aware of possible flaws in my logic there though without taking a course. I made a prediction, a bold assertion as to what's going down, knowing full well I might be blowing smoke. I did so because it is what I think is going to happen. I did it as a warning and a wake up call. Pay attention. We are about to fall off a ledge. We are contemplating attacking an other country because they pose a possible threat. Let us change out Constitution first. Let's make it legal to hang potential killers. You certainly qualify, those of you who are ready to kill on the basis of your fears and suspicions. Any psychopath can do the same. Are you (attack Iraq folk)the logical ones. I think not. I don't think you have the faintest idea why you think you can justify attacking Iraq. I think it's because you are a coward, afraid to life with uncertainty like billions of other people all over the world have done for centuries. I think you are a moral coward, not strong enough to stand up for truth, the kind of truth this nation has stood for since it's inception. I am an American. I don't kill people, theirs and mine, because I am afraid. My neighbor has a gun in his house. Shall I kill him because he doesn't like me. H might use it on me. You never know. We will then go on and attack Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the 60 countries that harbor Al Quada, Oh wait it's down to 40 or 50. You be logical. Do you really think we are attacking Iraq because they are a threat. We can turn Iraq into a sea of molten glass. Get real. Our government has been seized by an ultra conservative ultra hawkish bunch of extremists who threaten to completely alter the character of our nation. We are about to become terrorists and the most dangerous ones on the planet. Under the circumstances I don't mind being a little excessive.
Dave, will I give Bush credit if this ends without war. So you doubt it, eh? 😀 Now just how am I going to overcome that prejudgment. My honest opinion is that such a strategy, implying that it was his original intention, is much to brilliant to be a Bush idea, but it is something he may be backed into achieving by circumstance. The stupidity of his stated intention to attack is perhaps too unrealistic to achieve. He may have to settle for less and tout it as 'the intended goal'. I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not, what about you. Are you going to admit to anything. 😀
Most everyone comes to an issue believing some good things and thinking their ideas support those good things. It's dumb, in my opinion, to tell people they are wrong without telling them those good things they believe in really are good. There is nothing wrong with wishing to be secure. There is nothing wrong, I don't think, to keep mad men from having nuclear toys. In other words, Iraq is a problem like a lot of other countries, that needs reckoning with. We have to do it in a way that preserves our moral integrity, that's all. We need to court world opinion with truth, not with trumped up charges and fictions. If we have to physically disable Iraq as a threat, it needs to be a real threat and one that the rest of the world can see and agree on. We can't even get his neighbors to agree he's a threat.
