My Livejournal Rant

[BrooklynBrett]

hey all my politically-minded friends...
last night, i got all worked up about iraq, and i went on an hour-long typing spree.. don't expect this paper to be necessarily well-constructed, (it was an angry rant, afterall) but please try to answer my questions... my questions are this (answer ONLY after reading my livejournal entry)..
1. will you please prove to me your claim that this war is about oil?
2. how can you possibly call bush stupid?
3. Why do protesters take to the streets when they don't fully understand the situation... for more on this one, read the comment posted at the bottom of my rant by clicking on the little text that says "1 comment"

anyway, here's the link:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brettmichael/

[TheEvilOne]

Wow. I couldn't have said it better myself. It may be an angry, disorganized rant, but it covered every point that can be made by us who support military action. I'd like to see the anti-war people respond to this one.

[karasz]

At 2/18/03 12:36 AM, Thorfalcon wrote: 1. will you please prove to me your claim that this war is about oil?

there are a few reasons
1) Bush and Cheney's past are riddled with connections to Oil
2) Iraq is on top of the 3rd or 4th largest oil reserve in the world, North Korea has no oil and everyone knows they have nukes, yet the US does nothing about this.
granted they aren't super great but they help make a logical connection (despite what u think)that we are going after Iraq purely for oil.

2. how can you possibly call bush stupid?

yes he went to Harvard and Yale and was quite good in the national guard during 'nam... but his daddy went there (granted im well aware of the 1250+ Bush got in a time of not inflating grades)
also the Bush= stupid thing is something Bush uses to his advantage... in his first National Correspondence Dinner (something to that effect) he showed his old report card, saying 'to all you C+ kids out there, you too can be president' which is true if their dad was a president and u have the ability to raise massive amounts of money...

3. Why do protesters take to the streets when they don't fully understand the situation... for more on this one, read the comment posted at the bottom of my rant by clicking on the little text that says "1 comment"

granted their are some people that don't fully understand the issue... but lets not generalize it into every protestor... there are many that believe that a war in Iraq is wrong, and they were doing their constitutionally given right to assemble peacefully to protest.

In you're rant you wrote: "They do grotesquely unspeakable things to the human body. Saddam is making these gasses, and testing them on the Kurdish people, AND on his own people."

This reasoning is null and void in any arguement for a war... on september 10th the Taliban beat there women... and we did nothing, for 3 years before 9-11 the US shrugged its shoulders at this inhumane practice... (personally i feel that the Kurds should have their own country but that is a different story for a different day)

[karasz]

also you state: "Does 9/11 still ring in your ears?"

it was Al-Qaeda that flew the planes into the buildings not Iraq...

"Apparently, the loss of over 3,000 innocent Americans was an acceptable loss. It is insulting, hateful, and a spit and slap in the face to anyone affected by 9/11 to let that day go without taking action."

then lets get Osama, the mastermind behind 9-11... that is something else people are protesting 'get Osama not Saddam'

"How do I make the connection between 9/11, and Iraq? If you've studied even the NEWS recently, you know that the U.S and even the puppet-leaders in the UN have evidences which prove that Iraq has ties to al-Qaida."

Like the fake dossier that britian provided teh US and Powell read to teh Security Council? That paper was stolen from a british student and handed to Powell to read to the UN...

"Not just ties, in actuality, but blatant support."

The US supported Al-Qaeda when it was the muhjahaddein in Afghanistan fighting the Soviets.

"to uphold international law"

like when the US invades a nation (Iraq) that has not done anything to the US...

Bush is using 9-11 to get this war to happen... personally i've given up trying to stop a war in Iraq cuz a)its inevitable and b)i honeslty don't care... but what happens afterwards?

my prediction: US invades, Saddam uses chem weapons, US nukes baghdad, Iran sends in troops to protect teh Shia in the south, the US attacks Iran saying they are invading... then Iran says no the troops were for humanitarian aid only... causing Iran's leftist movement in the students (the groups that 30 years ago put them into power, is beginning to try to unseat them...) to a halt... saddam is killed, Saudi Arabia praises this, Al-Qeada (called a different name) cells in Saudi Arabia revolt against the monarchy, the monarchy flees, Saudi Arabia is called teh Islamic Republic of Arabia, the new govt promises to trade oil with the world and does, but then buys 3 nukes from pakistan... then shuts off the oil... and OSAMA comes into Arabia claiming to be the new ruler... and that is wehre we will stand, in 2006...

[JMHX]

Bah, there are more organized topics for this. It's impossible to wage the same war word-for-word on seven different fronts.

[implodinggoat]

At 2/18/03 01:30 AM, karasz wrote: Like the fake dossier that britian provided teh US and Powell read to teh Security Council? That paper was stolen from a british student and handed to Powell to read to the UN...

Get your news straight it was Tony Blair that read the paper written by a British Student.

[karasz]

At 2/18/03 09:15 PM, implodinggoat wrote: Get your news straight it was Tony Blair that read the paper written by a British Student.

doesnt change the fact that the dossier was fake...

[NEMESiSZ]

Just so you know, only losers use blogs.

[karasz]

At 2/18/03 11:12 PM, NEMESiSZ wrote: Just so you know, only losers use blogs.

what the hell is a blog?

[NEMESiSZ]

A weblog

They're for angst ridden anime fangirls, and apparently whoever this dude is.

[JMHX]

At 2/19/03 10:02 AM, NEMESiSZ wrote: A weblog

They're for angst ridden anime fangirls, and apparently whoever this dude is.

People who want their secrets to not be secret. Angst indeed.