Re: VOTE FOR BUSH!

From: Bill Sloman (bill.sloman_at_ieee.org)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 05:10:04 -0800

John Fields <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:<0p1fo011ft680ls11bto451mf2m9d33g3j@4ax.com>...
> On 1 Nov 2004 19:18:24 -0800, hybridyne2000@yahoo.com (Steve Sands)
> wrote:
>
>
> >War crimes? What a laugh. You pacifists make me wonder where we would
> >all be if you were in control.
>
> ---
> I don't wonder about it at all. We'd all be under their thumbs and
> they'd all be hovering around just waiting for anyone to make the
> slightest move which they considered threatening and then, SQUISH...
> ---

Make up your minds - either we are pacificist, or we are going to use
our massively destructive thumbs to squish you. You can't have it both
ways.
  
> >If your type were dealing with Bin
> >Laden or Saddam you would be the first to break out the K-Y.
>
> ---
> I think they'd be praying to magically sprout more cheeks.
> ---

What turns you on may not appeal to the rest of us.

> >War is not for the cowardly. It's real easy to sit back and just throw
> >cheap cowardly insults at the president without the benefit of knowing
> >the facts.
>
> ---
> I agree. Even "knowing" the facts doesn't convey license to insult,
> and destructive criticism doesn't do anything but help to vent the
> frustration of the impotent criticizer.

So you are in favour of Dubbya's crew's approach to the Geneva
Convention, and positively impressed by the way that all the useful
information that it has reaped has been used locate Osama bin Laden
and neutralised the armed opposition in Irak.

About the nearest thing to constructive criticism of your Irak policy
I can come up with is the suggestion that you give the country back to
Saddam and his surviving relatives - for all their numerous faults,
they seem to have been more effective at maintaining law and order
than your lot, and killed fewer people in the process.

A international peace-keeping force of some several hundred thousand
troops would probably do a better job - and kill even fewer people -
but Dubbya's crew haven't exactly gone out of their way to encourage
international involvement, and their chances of getting that sort of
help - if they ever developed enough sense to ask for it - can't be
said to be high.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen