Earnie Shavers
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Sting, "Anti War = Pro Saddam" or whatever the latest version of "With Us or Against Us" is, is really a very tired and pointless argument. I understand what you are saying about the protests, but I simply don't believe it's a reason for them not to occur. What do you want in their place? Everyone to very quietly whisper to each other "Sssshhh, keep it quiet but I disagree very strongly with this war. Pass it on... but don't say it too loudly.... it would be bad for people to know.... wait... here comes a camera.... GOD BLESS THE USA!!!! KICK TERRORIST ASS!!!!"
I'm in two minds about how things should be handled from here in Iraq. I don't believe the US/Coalition should just jump out of there now and leave a significant void that will surely take less than 24 hours to descend into all out civil war, and following that another 24 hours before it's all out regional war. That, obviously, is going to fuck us all royally and I don't want to see that happen. However, I believe all pressure SHOULD be put on the governments that invaded Iraq, because this is their mess and their mess only. To be blunt, they deserve it. There was a rage around the globe before the war, a rage around the globe during and after it. It was and has always been quite clearly an event that is something somewhere between either a deliberate misleading, an all out mistake or just a very dumb move. Somehow a majority of Americans were duped into supporting it. Somehow the majority of Australians and British who didn't support it were able to be completely shafted by their elected governments who went with it anyway despite knowing full well their populations wanted no part of such an obvious farce.
I have no sympathy for these governments being protested against. None. I want the problems in Iraq to work out for the Iraqi people as much as anyone, but I've got no sympathy for Bush or Blair or Howard or any of their underlings who created this. They deserve to hear the voice of everyone who is furious, and I believe that fury deserves to be at it's strongest in the US. The ball is in your governments court and has been the whole time.
Things aren't going well in Iraq (to say the least)? The tide is turning among your own population? Tough shit. Al Zarqawi and the current situation in Iraq were not created by two people debating on an internet message board, or by protesters in Sydney, London or Washington.
I'm in two minds about how things should be handled from here in Iraq. I don't believe the US/Coalition should just jump out of there now and leave a significant void that will surely take less than 24 hours to descend into all out civil war, and following that another 24 hours before it's all out regional war. That, obviously, is going to fuck us all royally and I don't want to see that happen. However, I believe all pressure SHOULD be put on the governments that invaded Iraq, because this is their mess and their mess only. To be blunt, they deserve it. There was a rage around the globe before the war, a rage around the globe during and after it. It was and has always been quite clearly an event that is something somewhere between either a deliberate misleading, an all out mistake or just a very dumb move. Somehow a majority of Americans were duped into supporting it. Somehow the majority of Australians and British who didn't support it were able to be completely shafted by their elected governments who went with it anyway despite knowing full well their populations wanted no part of such an obvious farce.
I have no sympathy for these governments being protested against. None. I want the problems in Iraq to work out for the Iraqi people as much as anyone, but I've got no sympathy for Bush or Blair or Howard or any of their underlings who created this. They deserve to hear the voice of everyone who is furious, and I believe that fury deserves to be at it's strongest in the US. The ball is in your governments court and has been the whole time.
Things aren't going well in Iraq (to say the least)? The tide is turning among your own population? Tough shit. Al Zarqawi and the current situation in Iraq were not created by two people debating on an internet message board, or by protesters in Sydney, London or Washington.