Wanna E-mail George W Bush?

by cellomould 26 Replies latest jw friends

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  Yerusalyim

  Actually I'd be hard pressed to name any of my friends that came back home numb or apathetic, just disappointed at the lack of support we seem to get.

  Sure, the US has a past history of genocide RE: Native Americans, a great crime for sure, but 100 years in our past, no one alive today is responsible for that. Our support of Saddam in his war with Iran was ill concieved, this I grant, but it's yet to be proven that the US had prior knowledge to the fact of his use of Chemical weapons.

  The US uses the UN as a tool for anything? The UN is one of the most anti-american organizations out there.

  The Iraqi government poses a clear and present danger not only to it's own people, the stability of the region, but directly to the US. THAT is why Sadam needs to go.
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  larc

  So, Cello, what is the answer? If you were in charge, what would you do?
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  cellomould

  Good question Larc,

  We shot ourselves in the foot by starving the people of Iraq. How could a 'regime change' possibly be stable now? Okay, Sadaam has to go...who will take his place?

  The only thing the U.S. could do is to rule Iraq itself. (If Sadaam could be 'taken care of') And how long would that last before it becomes a cruel dictatorship as well?

  If I were in charge... If I am to be honest with my people and the world, then I have to know what my intentions really are. Do I think I can fix things, or am I confident that I can make a positive and lasting change? I would have to think long into the future.

  Can I organize an independent and objective party of people to govern Iraq fairly? If it is in my power to topple the dictator, what good is my power if I cannot bring equity to the people of Iraq?

  I think that whatever action is taken, it must be legal and well-supported by U.S. allies. The surrounding countries are very important as well. People like to feel included. How do you convince them that you are attacking a vicious dictator rather than attacking the Islamic world as a whole? You must have some conversation, obviously. How likely is it that the other Islamic nations are well informed about Sadaam? Do we know how they feel about him?

  We do have diplomats in other countries. We do have experts in history, economics, politics, etc. who live in the Middle East. Some have ties to the U.S., some to the U.N., some to other countries. Take advantage of opinions of these people.

  Why does Bush want the people to support a war with so little information about 'why war' and 'what happens after'?

  I did hear one encouraging comment from the White House...when some Republicans started to voice their dissent about the war plans, they were not reprimanded but rather encouraged to speak out. These are people that can help devise a successful long-term solution, not just angry opposers. Take advantage of the opinions of these people, too.

  Yeru,

  It is rather sad that soliders felt unappreciated and unsupported. The U.S. public can be very fickle. Do you remember the footage of a solider's corpse being abused in Somalia (I think it was Somalia)? So people get emotional and angry. 'How dare they disgrace an American soldier?' But people soon forget his name and why he was there. He chose to be there.

  People cared more about their own egos than they cared for the man who died. At least that's how I see it.

  So we risk soldiers' lives everday, but when we see what it is really like on the battlefield (not just about kicking the enemy's ass)...we cringe in fear.

  Anyhow, thanks for sharing your thoughts

  cellmould
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  ThiChi

  I disagree. If we dont address this cancer now, it will spread, like Hitler did.

  "Tony Blair has apparently learned the lesson of September 11th, that tens of thousands of innocent civilians in the U.S., Britain, and other Western countries are endangered if Saddam Hussein teams up with these terrorists."

  ""The number of really evil tyrants in the world is very few, but what makes them powerful are the Neville Chamberlains of the world, the European Unions of the world, and the Bush 41ers of the world who look at evil and don't see evil. This is what empowers evil.""
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  ThiChi

  Well, what do you know..........

  France against publishing secret documents on Iraq's weapons programs

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  France said it was against publishing top-secret evidence on Iraq's alleged development of weapons of mass destruction, saying the public arena was not the place to wage such a campaign.

  "These are not issues which we can deal with publicly. This calls for serenity and seriousness, and we should therefore beware of any leaks and any saber-rattling proposals," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told France Info radio.

  On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would in the coming weeks release damning information about Baghdad's alleged efforts to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, to prove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

  The foreign minister said that France and Britain had shared information on the proof of such a weapons program. and it "is out of the question to divulge these exchanges."

  De Villepin said it was important to act responsibly in evaluating whether a "country could own chemical or biological weapons, and if it could turn into a threat."

  He added it was important that France evaluate such risks together with its European partners.

  "The international community is today very worried, which justifies our determination in the face of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

  Washington on Wednesday stepped up its war rhetoric, with President George W. Bush calling Saddam Hussein a "serious threat" and saying he would take his case against Iraq to the United Nations next week.

  De Villepin said "France, the world, cannot accommodate such a risk, and that is why we demand with insistance the return of the UN (weapons) inspectors to Iraq and that the country conforms with the demands of the international community."

  If it did, he stressed, it was up to the UN Security Council to decide on any international action.

  UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in 1998 in the face of an imminent US and British missile attack on Baghdad, and have since been barred from returning despite insistent UN demands.
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  Double Edge

  when you LIKEWISE have slaughtered MILLIONS by the H bomb in Japan?

  FS...you are soooooo clueless. First of all, it wasn't an "H" bomb, it was an "A" bomb...and it wasn't Millions slaughtered...a fraction of that. What was SAVED by a quick end of the war were MILLIONS of American and Japanese lives...your youth is showing and this isn't the forum to give you a CORRECT history lesson...to bad, because, with regard to this time in American history, you continue to promote the same old ignorant statements...your remark does serve a purpose though...it shows the total failure of our schools to teach truth with regards to this topic.

  Edited by - Double Edge on 5 September 2002 19:42:31
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  scuba99

  I would LOVE to e-mail George W. .......And tell him, I am 100 percent with him!!

  Saddam must go!
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  Double Edge

  SCUBA 99.....I'm with you. Saddam's got to go, or one day we'll look back on something worse than Sept.11th and wondered why we didn't do something!
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  cellomould

  Here's the point:

  Do something? Yes, of course.

  But doing 'something' does not equate to doing the right thing. A good chess player (which I am not) thinks many moves ahead. If all he thinks of is his next move, he is facing a huge loss.

  Okay, so we move our knight to capture a rook (or a rogue, by analogy). Then what?

  As evil as this guy may be, there are no doubt many more evil people on the waiting list for the throne of Baghdad. And what about terrorists? They all run away and hide when Sadaam's regime is denuded? Why should they give a flying fork about what happens to him?

  Don't knock down the hornets' nest unless you are prepared deal with the hornets.

  cellmould
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  cellomould

  This was a preview to World News Tonight, with Peter Jennings:

  Someone tried to kill the president of Afghanistan today. They just barely missed. In Kandahar, which was a Taliban stronghold, the attacker struck as a convoy carrying Hamid Karzai and Kandahar's Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai was leaving the governor's mansion on its way to the wedding of Karzai's younger brother. The governor was hit in the neck and treated at the U.S. air base near Kandahar; U.S. Special Forces killed the assassin. It happened just after a car bomb exploded in a busy market area in Kabul. It was the bloodiest attack in Kabul since Taliban were run out of town. David Wright starts our coverage from Kabul and then we will have a report from Martha Raddatz at the State Department.
  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/STRIKE_MAIN.html

  In Iraq, it was the busiest day in six months in the no-fly zone. U.S. and British planes dropped 22 bombs, on Iraq, so they say. There is no way to verify the official reason, which the U.S. says was " recent hostile acts." The damage was done to an Iraqi air defense command and control facility 240 miles west and slightly south of Baghdad, leaving some military observers to wonder whether the general campaign against Iraq was being intensified, period. John McWethy reports from the Pentagon.