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Re: Ted Koppel is the New Dixie Chick -- Sinclair's Power Play |
by ijustkrushalot
uiuc.edu (unverified) |
Current rating: 3
02 May 2004
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i don't know if they are rejoicing in his death... but to call his life wasted and meaningless is pretty close.
and i am refering to this thread ML
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/17093/index.php
he died fighting for the right of people like you to call his life wasted. He died so that you can post your discontent for president bush on this website. He died so that the taliban does not continue to offer refuge to people like osama bin laden, who have dedicated their life to killing people like you, simply because you live on the ground that you do.
Of course our government has made mistakes, and it has done things that you may not specifically agree with. Foreign Policy is always 20/20 in hindsight. At the time, Sadaam seemed like the lessor of two evils when compared to Iran. Keeping the invading soviets out of afghanistan was a good idea. I don't see how we could have known in the 80's that it would come back to bite us in the ass. The royal Saudi government was more than willing for US troops to be stationed in their country. Sadaam in fact did invade Saudi Arabia. Not only did he launch Scuds at them, but he launched an attack on the border town of Khafgi a week or two prior to the land invasion which was promptly put down by marines and saudi troops. His troops were raping the peaceful country of Kuwait, and we interviened, with the international community.
The man spent the next 12 years avoiding accountablility at any cost, using a loophole that allowed him to fly helecopters to kill kurds and put-down rebellion. He funneled oil for food money into his own pocket, while him and his sons killed for pleasure. Sure sanctions led to the deaths of iraqis, but sadaam knew damn well what to do to end it, and he didn't care. If we hadn't put sanctions on him, he would have rebuilt his military, and probably started a third war.
What pisses me off to no end is that obviously we dropped the ball on the WMD's... The only thing keeping me from being completly behind getting rid of sadaam was the fact that i knew this type of anarchy would result. I had my reservations about war, and i am fairly mad about it all now. Did sadaam actually destroy them? did they wind up in syria? who knows... but i do know that this world is a better place with out sadaam in charge of a country... and hopefully 5 years from now, maybe things will be better in the mid-east, or at least in iraq...
Tillman felt that he had to do something after watching 3,000 of his countrymen indiscriminatly murdered. If the attacks happened on September 12th, i would have probably lost an uncle... and i might be in iraq or afghanistan right now. 24 hours was the difference between my uncle being in kansas city, and in a meeting on the 100 something floor of one of the towers. |
