You think you're the only one with family who might be, or has been sent to the front? There are many others in the same situation Arrow, including me, and it dosen't make your position any more richeous.
War is not futile. It does not acomplish nothing. If we were all pacificts, it wouldn't be neccessary. However, we are NOT all pacificts.
You would have the US do nothing while tens of thousands of civilian Iraqi citizens lived out their lives under the tyrannical grip of a bloodthirsty dictator who would rather see the rest of the world slaughtered than leave his seat of power. You say that it is better to do nothing. To wait. Wait for what-- him to see the error in his ways? Waiting is, in this situation, both cowardly and stupid. Do you really want millions more people to be slaughtered in another 9/11? THAT is what would happen if we wait.
Yes, there is other evil in the world that should be stopped. But inaction will not improve it. In this situation, action will save lives and aid many more.
Critisizing Bush for making a choise, especially as you're putting your argument, is rather stupid. Do you really think it is, kinder, braver, or smarter to let millions die in inaction than hundreds die in action?
The UN wasn't going to make a choice. Bush waited. He gave them two last chances. They vowed that action would be taken if a deadline wasn't met. They lied. They dabbled with various forms of diplomacy, vetod several agreements, and generally wasted time. And, when the US finally sent troops in, they tried to get them to pull out-- tried to make another Vietnam, where troops died for a cause that was never achieved. I'm sure that at least most of the individuals there mean well, but as a whole, as the UN, they are more than useless.
And you and others with your view are like that, aren't you? You'll rant about the US, whine about how much power they have, throw stones from afar, and ignore the topic at hand.
Inaction would kill millions. And yet you still whine, rant, and bitch. You've forgotten 9/11, if you ever truly cared. You've forgotten the miserable lives being led by the Iraqis. You've forgotten that absolutely no moves have been made to use Iraqi oil, and yet you use it as a tool for your twisted purposes.
I'm sick of these stupid anti-war protests. You say that Iraqis are dying because the US invasion. The amount of native deaths is at a record low for all wars on this scale, however, as you carefuly ignore. You ignore the fact that the troops in Iraq are, without orders, sharing their rations with local families and helping rebuild. You ignore the fact that the men and women in Iraq right now have been, for the first time in most of their lives, released from the grip of a leader who blithely uses banned chemical weapons on his own citizens.
I know I'm not going to convince any of you-- you've shut your ears and eyes. You'd rather let evil things happen and ignore them than try and save lives. But, and I quote... 'It's not the world that I am changing; I do this so this world will know it will not change me.'
--Mouse
Famous Fighting Furball
