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igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:28 am Post subject:

Not what Fisk means love, but what YOU mean.

"THE" US ???

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

You tell us what Fisk meant.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee · Joined: 25 May 2003

patchy · Joined: 26 Apr 2005

The US has a nasty habit of pitting people against one another, brother against brother for a made-up ideological reason that only the US benefits from -- this is what happened in Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq.

And then they wonder why the Iraqis won't take up arms enthusiastically and do the dirty work for the Americans.

Bush certainly miscalculated from the first. He thought he could start the war on Thursday and finish it on Sunday. Hence the name, "Shock and Awe". He thought all the lies he drummed up to justify the war would be forgiven or at the least overlooked when the Americans saw how quickly the war ended. Only it hasn't, and now Bush is squirming as people are asking questions, trying to find out why the war is still going on and why the bodybags are coming back in the thousands and not in the single digits.

And so Bush dissembles, to keep face, all the while as people are still dying: Iraqi (goodness knows how many, the racist Americans don't keep track of Iraqi casualties, they obviously don't count as human to make it worth their while doing that) and American. They are dying so that Bush can keep up the pretense that the war had to happen. But some people never bought it. They never felt in their bones that the US was under threat from Iraq. Where was the draft then? Where was the urgent patriotic call for all US men and women to come to the aid of their country and defend it - if the country was under such grave threat? No, only the poor from disenfranchised minorities, (even illegal immigrants) were sent out as only the lowliest of the low need risk their lives in this sham of a war.

shakuhachi · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Sydney

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

afraid it isn't the first time that's happened to me on this board shakuhachi.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Its too obvious Iraq would vote along ethnic lines, with minorities feeling left out.

What was needed for long term peace was to subdivide the country into separate states that could go their own separate ways.

Totally obvious..but apparently impossible.

bucheon bum · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

for once i agree with you rapier.

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject:

They would just war on each other for the whole pie.

Everyone would claim control over this and that religious shrine, etc. It would not work.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

patchy · Joined: 26 Apr 2005

patchy · Joined: 26 Apr 2005