<x-charset ISO-8859-1>Enteresting corrolary. Nicely put. Worth giving some arduous thought.
Todd Swearingen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Moral Dilemma... > Those who feel the pre-emptive surpise attack on Iraq, killing thousands of > civilians, was morally justified cite the following beliefs. If they were > sincerely held, even if not supported by facts, then the war was justified. > > 1. Saddam Hussein was a nasty man. > > 2. Iraq might be giving aid and support to our enemies. > > 3. Iraq might have or want to have "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD), > biological, chemical, or nuclear. > > 4. Iraq had oil, which we were getting along without, but they might disrupt > our access to affordable oil. > > I am old enough to remember December 7, 1941, when the Japanese staged a > pre-emptive surprise attack on the U.S fleet at Peral Harbor, killing 254 > civilians. They sincerely believed the following: > > 1. FDR was a nasty man. > > 2. The U.S. was giving aid and comfort to Japan's enemies, sending planes > and pilots to China, sending American naval units into Japanese waters, etc. > > 3. The U.S. had huge stocks of chemical weapons, and a US Army Chemical > Corps. The U.S. had biological weapons and was supplying anthrax to the British. > The U.S. did not yet have nuclear waepons, but they were trying hard with > the Manhattan Project. > > 4. The U.S. had oil, which Japan could not get along without. In conjuction > with British and Dutch allies, the U.S. disrupted ALL of Japan's oil supply. > > Japan was strictly conforming to American legal and moral standards. We owe > them an apology for that "Day of Infamy" slander. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ </x-charset>
