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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Unlike that other acclaimed Nobel laurete, Tookie Williams who said "yo, I founded da gangz". Wow. they're translating speaches into Swedish [i]and[/i] German now? Truly an age of wonder we live in, boyos. [QUOTE]Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America's favoured method.[/QUOTE]...and right or wrong, has never been a "crime" (as he insinuates the US comitted). Who holds sway over what is a "crime" of invasion exactly? What country that's capable has not been guilty of it? While I agree wiuith him on Guantanamo, the notion that invading Iraq was "an act of terrorism" is stupid in the extreme. Stupid comment #1 [QUOTE]We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'.[/QUOTE]Er...that was all already abundantly there- we just brought our own and upset the status quo of it. Dont agree? Ask the Kurds. [QUOTE] The 2,000 American dead are an embarrassment. They are transported to their graves in the dark. Funerals are unobtrusive, out of harm's way. The mutilated rot in their beds, some for the rest of their lives. So the dead and the mutilated both rot, in different kinds of graves.[/QUOTE]Stupid comment #2 I cant speak for every american newspaper, but every death from here in Florida is accopanied by an article, interviews and opinions of the family. I've read a dozen interviews and articles on wounded troops and their problems this year alone. Nothing is "hidden" just because a funeral is not a PR event. Who would want a funeral that was not "unobtrusive"? These soldiers gave their lives doing their duty- no diffrent than any other serviceman that's died serving their country. There are numerous good points in the critique, but to point out all that's obviously wrong or immoral and then offer no alternatives is pointless. This kind of thing is why Plato's argument (in [i]Repubic[/i]for censorship of the arts is so compelling (though I dont agree with it completely, obviously). Of course Plato also said "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." so mabye this will inspire some to actually demand a higher moral standard from their leaders. But I would'nt count on it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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