Anyone seen this site yet?
POSTED BY: JenDandy
UPDATED: Monday, December 20, 2004 10:18
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Humans: the only creatures on the planet capable of evil. None of the other animals think in moralistic terms (that we know of). That's what makes humans different.
And because we know the difference between good and bad-- yet there's still gun use, war and poverty, profiling and ethnic cleansing and all the rest-- because of all that stuff we should know is wrong but we do or cause anyway, we're human and not some "lower animal."
We can't pretend to disown members of our species, no matter how execrable their crimes against us. That's like breaking a mirror to try and change your face.
The only way to deal with guys like Osama Bin Laden and win is to build strong, personal ties over a period of many years with people at the ground level all over the world. Only when we all see each other as human will we even begin to prevent the kind of hatred that led to a terrorist act.
War is a short-term, temporary treatment, not a long-term solution, to this problem.
Okay, I think I delved into a vat of Pollyanna with that post. Ew.
There is no such thing as a weed.
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Originally posted by JRC:
Uhhh, once again, YAWN.
The Marines ARE fighting a war on terror, in Iraq. Remember that terrorist animal who pledged his loyalty to Bin Laden? That's right, he's somewhere in Iraq. Is this news to you? Also, all the arguments about WMD are now out the window because, yes, there are, and always have been, terrorists in ----wait for it---- Iraq. Remember the mastermind of the hijacking of that Italian oceanliner? He got captured in, you guessed it, Iraq, by U.S. Special Forces. Who knows how long he was hiding there, courtesy of Hussein. Is this news to you? By the way, last I heard, there are approx. 14,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, looking for you-know-who. Is this news to you?
So um, what about the Saudis? Or is their accountability for 9/11 (all but one of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and that one wasn't from Iraq either) not in our best interests?
And why the whole smokescreen about WMD in the first place, if they knew (we have seen the intelligence reports; they knew) there weren't any WMD based on the evidence we had? See, I think that's all still on the table because 'our leader' put it there.
Heck, what about Chechnya? Or are we only interested in guys who attack America directly? So, not all terrorists.
I mean if we come down to it, name me a country that hasn't, at some point, had terrorist links attached to it somehow? I'm sure there are a few quietly active cells here on our native soil right now.
Those of us who are 'whining,' as you put it, are upset because we feel that BURYING EVIDENCE and IGNORING INTELLIGENCE are not ideally the American way of doing things. We can't be the land of the free if we give up all of that freedom (transparency in government) in the name of fighting terror. We can't be the land of the brave if we're afraid to use all of the information we have in our decision-making process, even if it contradicts what we had previously believed.
Those of us 'whining' are tired of having to defend our right to disagree and speak out about it without being told we're whiners or traitors. We love America too, dude, we just hate what some people are doing to it, both from the outside and from higher-up places right here at home.
News to us would be if differing points of view were encouraged at the cabinet level and higher, so that the President had more than one way of looking at stuff before he made decisions about it. THAT would be news.
And yes, I saw that site. I especially love the acceptances from people all over the world. I wanna post a picture and message, too!
There is no such thing as a weed.
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@Unicorn:
Well said 
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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Biggest bunch of sorry ass whiners and losers to appear on the internet. I feel sorry that some Americans have become so.... French. Pathetic.
And by the way...I'm NOT sorry Bush won. Now get over it and get a gorram life.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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