Mar. 14, 2003 - 1:18 p.m.
My ONE Rant on War

Hey guys,

I am going to make one real entry about this war thing and then I am going to leave it.

Do you think that bombing Iraq will eliminate Saddam Hussein and his government? Do you really think that? The man has 15 look alikes that he hires, he can always get more. He has probably hundreds of hiding places, fairly safe from bombardment. It will take months and months and who knows, years?? to find him or catch him or kill him, all the while Iraq is being bombed and bombed in the hopes we are hitting the place where he is this time. Out of all those bombs, even the smart bombs, there are misses. There are missed targets, there are mistakes, accidents, bystanders or acceptable losses etc.

Do you know who WILL die if we bomb the shit out of Iraq? All those people that we are trying to protect from Hussein's madness. The Curds that he let biological weapons loose on. His people, who are suffering like mad as it is. THEY are the ones that will die, because they have nowhere to hide, no protection. Because when it comes to the wire, to all out war, Hussein will save HIMSELF, not his people. All those people who had the misfortune in life to be born into that country, that place, and haven't the funds or resources to move. They are trapped there, they can try to flee, but we all know that's nigh impossible half the time.

Guess who else will die? US soldiers, your husbands and wives, YOUR friends and family. If this becomes a world war, EVERYONE's family and friends and loved ones will be killed.

To put it in simpler terms, thousands and thousands and thousands could die because of the hatred of ONE MAN. Hussein.

We're a modern world, we have crazy technology that I'm sure is so advanced that no one could even fathom it. We don't know for certain how far a "small war in the middle east" could escalate. How many religious zealots could see this as the beginning of the great jihad? That now is the time to purge the world of infidels and declare all out war upon all who are not muslim? And they are not afraid to die. They are not afraid to commit atrocities in the name of islam because if they die for islam, they are allowed into "heaven". They are martyrs. Take the suicide bombers, 9/11, multiply that kind of zeal by thousands as all the muslims who feel this way throw themselves at us.

We know that a couple of governments have the bomb. What's to prevent them from bandwagoning and throwing them at us? It's a bit alarmist, but couldn't starting a war, start a world war, which could end in something disastrous, like destroying ourselves?

We have SEVERAL governments with lots of power and pull. We have established processes, intelligence all kinds of shit that we can try in order to remove Hussein, and until we've exhausted EVERYTHING possible and there is no foreseeable alternative, nothing that we haven't tried already, then, war can be considered. But we haven't tried everything, we haven't exhausted all the avenues. Life isn't as expendable as it used to be. We know war is not a necessity like it used to be back when civilization was forming.

Do you remember in highschool on remembrance day when they made us watch war documentaries? Call me a bleeding heart, but there was so much pain and fear and death and horror that I couldn't bear to watch. I cried everytime. I still do. Call me a wimpy woman, but I don't want people to go through that again. I don't want to see 100's of thousands of people dying, for ANY cause.

I'd like to think that for the most part, most of the world IS civilized. So lets act like it.

I'm not saying we should nix war to save Hussein. Nix it to save everyone else.

THAT is why France doesn't want a war, THAT is why Canada doesn't want a war, THAT is why NOBODY wants a war, except the Americans.

Except President Bush who is FIXATED on removing Hussein and his government. So STOP complaining and whining that no-one supports the US. We support them just fine, Canada especially, with how much water we export to them, how we are getting RIPPED OFF on the softwood lumber issue, among other things.

For a country that was once told we would inevitably one day be swallowed up by the US by way of manifest destiny, which in my opinion is a GREAT affront and a HUGE insult, we sure do kiss their asses, so bugger off, keep the peaceful processes rolling and get rid of Hussein and his flunkies in a civilized, rational, even tempered, logical and life valuing manner.

Chrissakes.

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