Originally posted by Edogg
i have some questions for you blood?
do you think the taliban should have been left to control afghanistan by using fear and radical rules? Do you think we should have left the al qaeda in afghanisatn so that they could continue on their merry little terrorist ways? do you think Saddam should remain in power at Iraq? a man who controls people by fear? a man who gained power through murder? a man who wont allow any Iraqi to speak poorly of him to outside reporters? if they do, they will be executed. It just seems your extreme mistrust of our government has blinded you to the fact that it is capable of doing good things.
The Taliban was placed in power by the CIA and replaced by another operative of the CIA. There is no difference. However, the Taliban in thier infinate wisdom also decided to scrap the opium fields and begin planting food stuffs for their people. How horrible. They must be stopped.
The Taliban may not have been the best to rule, but then the people always have an alternative. They can overthrow their government, they can fight them if they really wanted to. However, what right do we have to say that they should live as we do? Act as we do? Live as we do? We have enough problems over here that need to addressed before we go around and tell others how to live their pathetic little lives.
Saddam is the same story. Placed into power by the CIA, armed by the CIA and other nations. I have one question for you in this matter. If the people did not want Saddam, couldn't they just have killed him? Afterall, every time I saw Saddam on the boob-tube, the people around him had assault rifles and he was in the open. He had nothing to fear from his own. I'll bet that if the war were to end and elections were to happen, Saddam would be re-elected.
Again what place do we have in telling others how to run their country? We wouldn't stand for it. If some other country forced their beliefs, their lifestyle, their political process on us we would tell them top go to hell in a heartbeat.
Why would you deny them the same right to decide what their country does, when we would never stand for it?
And no, I do not think that Saddam, nor the Taliban are nice individuals, being trained by the world's hit squad. But if you look at our recent history, you will find that we do much worse. The only difference is that we hide it better.
And our government doesn't do nice things. The government does horrific things then plays a public relations game to make it appear that they are doing good.
If our government does such nice things, why is it planning to use a chemical agent on family farms, most of which do not grow coca plants, in Columbia that is 10 times worse than agent orange?
If our goverment does such nice things, why does it allow illegal aliens to get some of the best medical care in the country while our very own citizens suffer with ailments?
If our government does such nice things, why did they just cut $192 from the Department of Vetran Affairs?
If our government does such nice things, why, in Gulf War 1, did they use delpeated uranium on the battlefield of Iraq and not tell our own soldiers?
(DU has a half life of something on the order of 4 billion years and will remain radioactive. 30 tons from the first Gulf War and who knows how much now.)
No, our government does not do such nice things voluntarily. Only when it meets their needs.
Oh yea, and I should support Shrub? He gained power, not through an election, but by appointment from the supreme Court. Oh yea, and now they are using the (UN)PATRIOT ACT to round up dissenters here in America. They have lists of people who they know will make trouble and have begun paying them visits and, poof, they disappear. Do you support this? I know Mugzy does.