--- Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a gun owner, but I do support our constitutional right to own > a gun > which puts me on the you-know-what list for liberals.
no, i don't know, what list? > I also happen to believe that George Bush is one of the better > presidents > we've had in a long time, and I thank my lucky stars that we didn't > wind up > with Al Gore. Our constitution provides everyone the right to state a > > contrary oppinion. I also hold the UN to be an absolutely worthless > waste(r) > of time. Our constitution provides everyone the right to state a > contrary > oppinion on that, too. Indeed it does, however you haven't all that great of track record as of late in backing up that claim. > I find myself not overy impressed by the fact that several hundred > thousand > (out of a couple hundred million) Americans and a few million (out of > billions) world wide don't like the idea of the looming war with Iraq. I'm not sure where you're coming up with these numbers. I've not heard of any official polling to support or refute such numbers at all. Surely your'e not making them up, right? > I'm > not a war monger, but I can't swallow the conspiracy theory drivel > that this > is just a war to grab Arab oil. On the other hand, there is the I don't entirely buy that one either. There are a lot of theories, and Bush's public excuse about terrorism & WMD. Personally i think its a combination of getting revenge for daddy, setting up a distraction from the failure to pull off some concrete results against al Qaeda, and the hope that an overwhelming victory can be used as concrete evidence of progress in the 'war aginst terrorism'. North Korea not only has all of the WMD that Bush claims to be worried that Iraq has, but has also threatened to use them against the US. The key difference is that N. Korea has the world's 5th largest military, who are significantly better trained & armed than Iraq's. Bush is picking the easy target, rather than the far more unstable & dangerous one. > conspiracy > theory (this appears to have at least as much foundation in truth as > the > other) that one of the principal reasons for French and German > sympathy with > Sadaam Hussein is the fact that they have lucrative arms contracts > with the > Iraqui government I also find myself not overly impressed by the fact Actually, this 'theory' isn't true at all. The French & Germans do happen to have a significant number of contracts over the oil fields, which would almost assuredly be nullified if the regime changed in Iraq. > that > many of the core constituents of the anti-war rallies are the usual > socialist > sympathizers who hate private ownership of property in general and any what kind of utter BS is that? Surely you can do better than calling peace activists socialists or commies? And i'll also question your claim of "most of" which has no statistical basis whatsoever. > My sister-in-law is one of those people who came to internet surfing > (Windows > based, of course) late in life and who forwards to me immeasurable > amounts of > drivel along with a few pearls of wisdom / good jokes like this one. So far all i've seen is immeasurable amounts of warmongaring, xenophobic, jingoistic drivel. due let us know when you've got something based in fact & reality. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/general
