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Old 01-19-2005, 07:26 PM   #145 (permalink)
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Maybe this is about highschool mentality, maybe you never realized RB, but in life you stand up to the bully.
dont worry, mojo, it is.
so is your ridiculous analogy to neville chamberlain---fill me in again--without resorting to repeating the standard, obviously absurd platitudes of the bush administration and their efforts to compare this colonial war in iraq with world war 2--how was saddam hussein--who presided over a country with a gnp the size of kentucky's before the first gulf war--who may have been an asshole, but he was an american backed asshole for many many years, during that long predictable period when american interests did not extend to human rights violations (how could they when they armed/backed doing the violations? american lackey turned bully? how does that work again?)--but he was an asshole without wmds, without links to "terrorism" who at the point of invasion had presided over a country crippled by sanctions for years--so how exactly does this parallel work? i mean apart from the fact that you probably did not like hitler and do not like saddam hussein....

so is your willingness to arbitrarily shift from a specific argument to general positions and back again---i assume the chamberlain analogy operates at the level of abstract statement--it certainly makes no sense in the present context (either with reference to iran or iraq).

so is your characterization of pacifism as weakness or disease.

so is the analogy between international relations and a high school playground.

so is your "theory" of democratic process that must result in regimes that you like (maybe the iraqi people should call you up before they vote in the coming sham elections?)

and not a bit of it to do with the possibility of the invasion of iran.




by the way, could you find an adult to translate this into adult language please....:

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