Is it justified?

@shu

Join Date 09/2001

Is it justified?

Is it justified? I mean the war against Iraq. Of course, the optimists may say, 'Look, it hasn't taken place as yet'. But it is clear to even the common observer that the Anglo-American governments are cranking up the war machine.

They are hell bent on taking unilateral action against a nation that is already destroyed by hunger and poverty, even after the UN weapons inspectors have found nothing. Doesn't this make their actions suspect?

Elsewhere, the N. government openly admits to having a nuclear weapons program, but no action is taken against them. The mere possibility of taking action too does not cross the mind of the very same leaders who threaten to blow Iraq into oblivion. Is it due to the fact that N. Korea possesses the capability to retaliate, or the fact that N. Korea does not have any oil reserves to quench the thirst of these oil guzzling, 'developed, first world' countries?

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Fuzzy Logic

Join Date 05/2002

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Here's the other side. This is something which was on our TV a couple of weeks ago

A group of 100 US schoolkids were shown an atlas and asked to point to Iraq, here are some of the stats:

18% pointed to France
17% pointed to South Africa
16% pointed to South America
16% pointed to China/Tibet
+ various other places far and wide

Not one pointed to Iraq or even got close, and I feel sorry for the two who pointed to Greenland... How can you bomb a country when your people don't even know where it is!

I agree with the kids, we should start bombing France immediately

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I have been into this thread everyday and have started to post to it even after I claimed I wouldn't anymore because things make me want to express my thoughts and feeling and also attempt to understand others thoughts and feelings.

The problem is, for myself at least, I can not do it in a manner which would not turn it inside out and upside down.

The only thing I can come up with is the point is moot.

We are going to invade Iraq, we are going to take control ( protect so it is claimed ) the oil fields until such time as the Iraqi people pay off rebuilding. Wonder who is getting those contracts?

In the end, it really doesn't matter because nothing is going to change in this nation or world. At least not for an extreamly long time I fear. of course if little purple men showed up demanding we give up the little green ones they hate so much and know we are hiding and do not want to hear our lies. If we do not give those little green men up they will destroy the planet, yet how can we give them up cause they're not here? I mean dangggggggg Dudes and Dudetts we be in for it now. Oh wait, there are not any little purple men and there are not any little green men, .. sigh .. cool we're safe for sure now

Hey maybe one of those Astroids like the one that they didn't notice had passed so close to the earth until four days after it went by

Then humanity would have to come together, well no, not really, some would figure, well I want to kill them, so Why not? The world is going to end anyways....

Fuzzy, you could do that with those same kids and I bet they could not point to Indiana on a map without the states names on it unless they happen to live in or near it.

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India's nuclear programme is around 50 years old. Though before 1974, it was for peaceful purposes only. But 'The Buddha smiled' in 1974.
though I do not approve of my country possesing a N. weapon, it is not N. Korean in origin. (might be Russian tho. USSR and India have been quite close from the late sixties)

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