Re: No.......
Whether invoked or not Q, your input is always welcome. Feel free to comment on any remarks I make, no matter how much you disagree with them.
In what way do you mean he kicked the sleeping bear? Not sure I follow that exactly.
Anyway, the action wasn't just done for Iraq. It was done as a whole motivator for declaring war on fundementalist Islamic terror groups. (Which as I said, was to give carte blanche to any country who could have a trumped up charge of harbouring or co-operating with terrorists against them.) Afghanistan was first, then Iraq, I'm sure more will follow. And considering the amount of public opposition to the ill-motivated War on Terrorism, it seems that the public weren't convinced enough, rather than already too convinced. I'm not deliberately being fascetious Q, but I really don't understand what you mean. Given the huge numbers at protest marches across the West and the huger number of letts of complaint and petitions being sent in, how do you mean that such an act of magnitude wasn't required? If it truly wasn't, wouldn't public support be a lot stronger?
But anyway, you disagree with me and that's fine. Your perogative and your right. I'd never presume to deny anyone that. I may be wrong. I truly don't believe I am, but I'm not omnipotent. I just voice my opinion based on what my research has led me to conclude.
qjakal said:I realize you didn't invoke me (a wise decision, in my opinion)
Whether invoked or not Q, your input is always welcome. Feel free to comment on any remarks I make, no matter how much you disagree with them.
qjakal said:but I felt that this comment needed to be disputed outright. The mechanisms for stirring the US populace that are already in place are sufficient without crashing planes into multi billion dollar buildings and sacrificing thousands of lives. Given Saddams uncanny ability to stuff his foot into his mouth on nearly all subjects, your basic premise shows itself as flawed. Post war evidence that he didn't possess WMD makes him look even more foolish. Kicking the sleeping bear without having a gun is idiotic and a sure sign of being a pyschopath...
If for some reason the government wanted to declare war on say, Canada or Britain, THEN perhaps an act of this magnitude would be needed to galvanize the public....but for Iraq? You're stretching BJim, and the rubber band has snapped.
Q
In what way do you mean he kicked the sleeping bear? Not sure I follow that exactly.
Anyway, the action wasn't just done for Iraq. It was done as a whole motivator for declaring war on fundementalist Islamic terror groups. (Which as I said, was to give carte blanche to any country who could have a trumped up charge of harbouring or co-operating with terrorists against them.) Afghanistan was first, then Iraq, I'm sure more will follow. And considering the amount of public opposition to the ill-motivated War on Terrorism, it seems that the public weren't convinced enough, rather than already too convinced. I'm not deliberately being fascetious Q, but I really don't understand what you mean. Given the huge numbers at protest marches across the West and the huger number of letts of complaint and petitions being sent in, how do you mean that such an act of magnitude wasn't required? If it truly wasn't, wouldn't public support be a lot stronger?
But anyway, you disagree with me and that's fine. Your perogative and your right. I'd never presume to deny anyone that. I may be wrong. I truly don't believe I am, but I'm not omnipotent. I just voice my opinion based on what my research has led me to conclude.





