After reading the posts…
I did not want to read the posts before posting myself I was afraid it would bias me. Now that I have just a few things I want to address personally.
Where does the money come from? It comes from governments. I read that people want proof. If you want proof it’s easy, go out there and see it with your own eyes. I’ve been to the West Bank twelve times in my life. I’ve seen with my own eyes the smoking corpses peel from the seats of a bus. Ive seen families of these suicide bombers now finally eating, but heartbroken and blaming Israel for the death of their son. When asked, they claim they were compensated by the Palestinian government, through Saddam Hussein. Were they lied to? It’s from their own mouth. Just because a CNN reporter wasent in the building doesent mean it never happened. It’s like the war you’re watching on TV that say “Another Baghdad attack!” yet its no where near Baghdad, it’d be like attacking Pomona and claiming LA was hit. The news lies to you more than your government, they go live with stories that just arent true, and fill in details when none are available. This has been proven more time and time again than actual government lying.
Many of these people who are hailed by the Modern World, to have great resolve for willing to trade their life for a bus full of students, dont. They are simply starving and jobless, and being a soldier, or a suicide bomber is like hitting the jackpot for some of these families. By creating jobs, and stable governments we help to end this cycle. It will never be possible to end it entirely, as there will always be those people ignorant enough or brainwashed enough to think that innocent death will make them heroes.
To wait until airplanes crash into your home buildings, is folly. The first time the continental United States was attacked so massivly was on 9/11/01. It had never happened to such a degree before at a single moment. To allow this to happen again would be sin. It’s not until your freedom has been taken, and the every day fear of invaders and murderers and worse is constantly on your mind that you’ll begin to understand why we must activly protect it. Until then people will abuse democracy by heading to the streets to protest something they really dont know anything about one way or another. They simply rely on their fantastic innate sense of the value of human life, and I do applaud that sentiment, however misplaced.
As this terrible war unfolds many secrets will be revealed, the least of which will be that Saddam funded major terrorist organizations.
Read again my previous post. I’ll talk about it again here. Bush’s policy is VAGUE. My gripe if I have one at all, is that we are only doing what were “Allowed” to. The sad truth is, powerful people within the Saudi government as well as many ‘friendly’ governments also fund terrorism. Yet we cannot touch them due to the sentiment “You hate Islam, all Arabs!” and many of the complaints Im reading about this war just support that fact. And sadly these people have never gone beyond CNN to find the truth about these regimes, not just Iraq, but Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemin, Jordan. Unfortunatly what all these countries have in common is their large Muslim populations. They have done a fantastic job at preventing us from ever stopping this funding entirely by reaching into your heart and telling you white people hate arabs and want their oil. One day these countries will have nuclear weapons, and they wont be so secretive about their hatred of you.
Oil has nothing to do with anything. But enough said, I’m sure by now I have ostracized myself sufficiently =)