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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Robert Comer
date: 2004-08-02 08:38:44
subject: Re: Wolf

From: "Robert Comer" 

> There's great irony in that, to be willing to kill innocents to kill
> terrorists, who would have killed innocents... Now, who was the bad guy?

We certainly can't hold the high moral ground if what we do causes more
death than what the terrorists have done.

> Sad, and quite frightening actually how people can't understand what they
> become when they think of themselves better than others to the extent that
> they become just like those they are supposed to be better.

Yep. :(

- Bob Comer


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message news:410e2239$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> There's great irony in that, to be willing to kill innocents to kill
> terrorists, who would have killed innocents... Now, who was the bad guy?
> Sad, and quite frightening actually how people can't understand what they
> become when they think of themselves better than others to the extent that
> they become just like those they are supposed to be better.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:410e1f75{at}w3.nls.net...
>> No, I was discussing Iraq, not killing terrorists specifically, and
> frankly
>> your implication it was worth it to kill terrorists now disgusts me.  How
>> many innocents are you willing to kill to kill one terrorist...
>>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:410dbdef{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > We aren't discussing going in the first place.  We are discussing
> killing
>> > terrorists there, and we are.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> > news:410da657$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> > Nobody said we are there killing links.  We are there killing
>> > terrorists,
>> >> > and we are.
>> >>
>> >> Terrorist links and there wasn't any until we went in. 
Now there is
> but
>> > you
>> >> can't use that as reasoning for us to go in in the first place.
>> >>
>> >> - Bob Comer
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> >> news:410d933a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> >
>> >> > "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
>> >> > news:410d8cf0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> >> > Yes they were.  That's my point.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You are wrong, plain and simple, there has been
no terrorist link
> that
>> >> >> has
>> >> >> ever been uncovered, you're only source is the
Bush administration
> and
>> >> >> they're just covering their asses right now.
>> >> >
>> >> > Nobody said we are there killing links.  We are there killing
>> > terrorists,
>> >> > and we are.
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >You can't free 25 to 50 million people
>> >> >> > from tyranny without some civilian casualties.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> We haven't freed *anyone* from tyranny in Iraq,
for one there's no
>> > proof
>> >> >> that it's as bad as it was advertised to begin
with and the new
>> >> >> government
>> >> >> is going to be same-o same-o anyway.  Not to
mention also doesn't
> mean
>> >> > they
>> >> >> were terrorists btw.
>> >> >
>> >> > Ah the Hussein was just a misunderstood genteel
dictator crowd rears
>> >> > its
>> >> > head.
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Look to somewhere like Sudan, now there's
tyranny and a need for
>> >> >> our
>> >> > troops,
>> >> >> but darn, they're all tied up in a war that's meaningless.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes and we are the only country trying to help. 
Foni Annan and the
> UN
>> >> > aren't willing to sanction any help.  What you want
us to go in
> without
>> >> > the
>> >> > UN's and France's approval?
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > We are there killing the terrorists and
seeking to transform the
>> > middle
>> >> >> > east
>> >> >> > through a bold and visionary policy from
our President George
> Bush.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> That policy just breeds more terrorists.
>> >> >
>> >> > No it kills terrorists, and more importantly can lay
the groundwork
> for
>> >> > killing the concept of terrorism, which is something even more
>> > important.
>> >> >
>> >> > Gary
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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