-----Original Message----- From: theodore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:22 AM To: 'blonde in the bleachers' Subject: RE: Iraq-NJC
Do you so long to justify killing babies that you failed to even read my post? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of blonde in the bleachers Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Iraq-NJC So what! They both equally dislike the United States. Nice email address by the way, if you lived elsewhere, say Iraq, you wouldn't be given the freedom to voice your own opinion or oppose your own government. War with Iraq was inevitable, but to listen to all of the people who oppose this war you would think that Saddam is being persecuted when in reality he is the persecutor. Is the left so willing to oppose the war that they turn a blind eye toward the human atrocities that are committed by Saddam? >From: "theodore" >To: "'blonde in the bleachers'" >CC: >Subject: RE: Iraq-NJC >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:02:56 -0800 > >I've heard bin-laden does not like saddam. Iran and Syria are deemed >bigger terrorism threats. Even if iraq was directly responsible for >9/11. I do not believe war is the answer. Violence is a cycle. To be the >moral leaders of the world we need to be just that. As far as I can tell >bush has made us all terrorists and murderers. I don't believe in the >death penalty either for the same reason. Two wrongs don't make it >right. I think that if one of those people that died on 9/11 could come >back they would say "we've got to have peace." >Love, >Ted > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >blonde in the bleachers >Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Iraq-NJC > > > >You can guess they didn't help, but you can't be sure. > > >From: Ruth Davis >Reply-To: Ruth Davis >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: >Iraq-sjc (little) >Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:18:41 GMT > >While some of >the discussion is focusing on Iraq, I'd like to share the following with >you all. I worked Joni in at the end, although I had to alter her lyric >slightly: > >ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE WAR >This war sets a dangerous >precedent. Iraq was not behind 9/11. We have no reason to believe there >is an Al Qaeda link to Saddam Hussein. While Saddam is a brutal >dictator, >others exist in the world today. Will we go to war to depose all of >them? >You dont just march into a sovereign nation, no matter how corrupt, and >overthrow its government. That is for the people of that country to do >on >their own, if they can. > >The potential backlash of a war with Iraq is >a >very real threat. Iraq, or groups sympathetic to Iraq, could easily >initiate a retaliatory attack either against our allies in the Gulf >region, or else here in the U.S. Who knows how many terrorists remain >embedded in the U.S. Or, Iraq could sell its remaining chemical and >biological weapons to various rogue terrorist groups. > >We have lost >the >support of many of our allies France, Germany, etc. We are tarnishing >the already weakened status of the UN. We are provoking France, Germany >and Russia to struggle to assert themselves to keep us in check. Our >image of fairness, of upholding international law, is tarnished as well. >We are also refusing to face the real major cause of tension in the >Middle East, namely, the Israeli/Palestinian situation. > >Fighting this >war will be costly. The $75 billion Bush asked Congress for is just the >first installment. Our economy is already weak now. The war will be a >constant drain on our resources. That is exactly the thing that will >please Osama bin Laden (remember him?): A constant drip, drip, drip of >our resources dragging us down until we all go down the drain. >Certainly, >wherever he is, he must be pleased that we have launched our war against >Iraq. > >Occupying and reforming Iraq, presuming we win, will be even >more expensive than the war itself. Our presence in the region will be a >constant thorn in the side of all the other Arab nations, who will be >angered by our arrogance, interference and pride in believing we can >dictate to another country the shape their government should take. You >cant take democracy and shove it down peoples throats like a pill. >Plus, democracy here in the U.S. is being eroded now. > >For additional >study, check out this website: www.911pi.com > >******************************************************************* > >When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a >European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is >violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. >When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it >breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not >belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or >partial >system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. >--J. >Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, pp.51-52 > >Like a barbed wire >fence, strung tight, strung tense, every notion we subscribe to, every >pretense, is just a Borderline > -- Joni Mitchell > >One love, one >heart, >lets get together and well feel all right. > --Bob Marley > > >Ruth in >Richmond > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- - > >Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*.
