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Let Freedom Ring
#1410602 - 03/26/03 05:38 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Fourteen civilians died and another 30 were injured in Baghdad when a shopping area was hit during an air raid by US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi authorities say.
The BBC's Andrew Gilligan, at the scene in the northern Shaab district of the city, says it appears that two missiles hit a busy parade of shops, several hundred metres from any military buildings.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: dee_N_ae]
#1410607 - 03/26/03 05:40 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Unfortunately our technology is not perfect.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410610 - 03/26/03 05:41 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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neither is our morality.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: ]
#1410615 - 03/26/03 05:42 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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I won't argue with that. Everyone on this planet has morality problems.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410628 - 03/26/03 05:45 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Yeah, never mind all the innocents that die in YOUR name.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: dee_N_ae]
#1410635 - 03/26/03 05:46 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410640 - 03/26/03 05:48 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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I doubt he does either.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: dee_N_ae]
#1410650 - 03/26/03 05:51 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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There used to be a t-shirt for things like that. It said "Shit happens".
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: Ellis Dee]
#1410694 - 03/26/03 06:03 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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dbl post
Edited by dee_N_ae (03/26/03 06:04 AM)
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: Ellis Dee]
#1410697 - 03/26/03 06:03 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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"Liberation Happens"
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410733 - 03/26/03 06:15 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here.
You're a tax paying citizen of the U.S.A, correct? This is our tax dollars at work.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: dee_N_ae]
#1410871 - 03/26/03 07:08 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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I happen to believe that this preemptive strike will avoid future civilian deaths. I must admit however that this is almost entirely speculation.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410898 - 03/26/03 07:17 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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That is completely illogical...by the same notion, a pre-emptive strike on George Bush would avoid more war..when in reality it would only create more.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: Rono]
#1410907 - 03/26/03 07:20 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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It is a documented fact that Saddam kills his own people. I didn't say it would prevent war, I said it would prevent more civilian deaths in the long run.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410920 - 03/26/03 07:26 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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It is a documented fact that Saddam kills his own people
Ever heard of Waco?...
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410924 - 03/26/03 07:28 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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I'm sick of hearing about how Saddam kills his own people as if that's why we're there.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: Rono]
#1410940 - 03/26/03 07:33 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Quote:
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It is a documented fact that Saddam kills his own people
Ever heard of Waco?...
Ever hear of Klinton?
And while any dying at Waco was too many, it hardly compares to this..... "DOING the arithmetic is an imprecise venture. The largest number of deaths attributable to Mr. Hussein's regime resulted from the war between Iraq and Iran between 1980 and 1988, which was launched by Mr. Hussein. Iraq says its own toll was 500,000, and Iran's reckoning ranges upward of 300,000. Then there are the casualties in the wake of Iraq's 1990 occupation of Kuwait. Iraq's official toll from American bombing in that war is 100,000 ? surely a gross exaggeration ? but nobody contests that thousands of Iraqi soldiers and civilians were killed in the American campaign to oust Mr. Hussein's forces from Kuwait. In addition, 1,000 Kuwaitis died during the fighting and occupation in their country.
Casualties from Iraq's gulag are harder to estimate. Accounts collected by Western human rights groups from Iraqi ?migr?s and defectors have suggested that the number of those who have "disappeared" into the hands of the secret police, never to be heard from again, could be 200,000. As long as Mr. Hussein remains in power, figures like these will be uncheckable, but the huge toll is palpable nonetheless."
http://www.iraq.net/erica/news-e/archives/00001146.htm
To even attempt to compare the two is at best..... disingenuous.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: z@z.com]
#1410947 - 03/26/03 07:34 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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If it was coalition missiles, than it is certainly a set back for the coalition and by the same token it was obviously not on purpose
dee, According to Aldous, no American should get credit for this. But thanks for pointing out that it is those American tax dollars that pay for the precision ordinance that is saving thousands of lives every day. Obviously they are not perfect but when it comes to war, no other country puts as much effort and money into trying to prevent necessary loss of life.
While your at it, where does most money for humanitarian and releif orgs come from? Who forgives the most 3rd world debt? Heres a clue, it isn't France, Germany, or Russia. It isn't even filthy rich oil producing countries.
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Re: Let Freedom Ring [Re: Rono]
#1410951 - 03/26/03 07:35 AM (21 years, 8 days ago) |
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Yes I have heard of waco. It was a terrible thing, but that hardly applys to what is happening here.
-------------------- "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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I see...Killing your own people is okay as long as it's not that many, and only if it happens in the U.S. ...gotcha.
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