QUOTE (slavteren @ Jul 8 2005, 06:05 AM)
i'm actually glad to see these reaktions, couse this is NOT what you see in the tv... you people are normally exposed as war-horny self-rightious "extreemists".
happy to see that at least some of you are not...
I dont think that the terrorist think of us as innocent, they have been convinced that WE are responsible for all of theyre problems, and that we want to destroy theyre relegion... Tell me that you religious guys would'nt react if it were "our" religion that we felt was under attack?
They broperbly feel the same: this is war, and somebody is gonna get hurt...
and hey: if you stick your hand in a bees nest, you are gonner get stung...
Slavteren, you're falling pray to what's known as listening to the loudest voice. The loudest voice around here says Iraq is a quamire, that Bush is a nazi, that what we do is wrong. And it's a small minority that just knows how to work the system and make their voice heard. Example, you'll hear about Fahrenheit 9/11 which talks about how Bush takes the longest vacations of any president (which was padded such that it included weekends btw), but you won't ever hear of FahrenHYPE 9/11, which explains that in one week of Bush's 'vacation' in august he traveled to something like a half dozen states, made speeches, signed laws, got briefed on issues, and stuff like that. You'll hear about how Bush was some kind of service dodger because he got into the national guard and never showed up, based on documents whose validity were called into question within an hour of them being on the news and were pretty much proven as BS and yet dispite being proven as forgeries, as Dan Rather, said they still ask questions that demand being answered. And yet as far as I know, John Kerry (who was hailed as the big war hero during the election) never had to answer for throwing his medals/someone else's medals away in an anti-Vietnam war rally after he served about 4 months in country ona swift boat. He was enlisted for about 2 years, the first of which was on a ship in the pacific, then a month of swifty training, and 3 months in 'nam before he got all his purple hearts.
I know what it's like having my religion attacked, actually. If you're a christian in this country, you're considered a closed minded throwback to the days of yore where you want women to have to go to back alley abortions. I'm sure everyone's seen the "United States of Canada/Jesusland" map of North Amercia that michigain fatbody put out. Kind of hurtful, but eh, it's just against christians, they're evil closed minded people anyhow.
What is happeneing today with the US persuing the war on terror is exactly what you said. Al Qaeda stuck their hand in the bee's nest, same as the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor. Saddam Hussein stuck his hand in the bee's nest when he invaded Kuwait, dodged it for awhile, when he made plans to assassinate a former United States President, dodged it for a little while longer, made deals with the UN to pad his pockets and stil dodged the sting. And now he's in his own world of hurt. People are quick to cry out "Oh, it's OSaddam bin Laden, right you silly gooses?" But the fact that is avoided is that he was a sponsor of terrorism, we had every reason to believe that he was persuing weapons that he should not have had (whether it be bio, chem and nukes or just the simple rockets that could hit Israel that he was told by the UN he could not have as a term of the end of the first Gulf War), he was a mass genocidal murderer and an all around assclown. But for some reason, there are many 'peace-mongers' who say he deserves more benifit of the doubt than someone like Terri Schiavo deserved.