Nice little read

[Baalzamon]

The situation with Israel's resolutions in no way effects our national security

And that means its not worthy of your attention right?

Thank you for destroying any attempt for the Bush administration to claim the moral high ground here. I'm sick of the crap we keep hearing about "freeing the iraqi people" and "stopping the evil dictator". This is about the U.S. looking out for its own interests, and nothing more. To claim otherwise is an insult to the intelligence of every human being on the planet.

So what are the U.S. interests here? a little bit of two possibilities:

1. protect itself.
2. get something it wants but cant get otherwise.(such as oil, just as an example)

in the case of #1, I'm not convinced Saddam could successfully hurt even a neighbor at the moment, and I certainly dont expect to see iraqi nukes flying towards the east coast anytime soon, so #1 is bullshit. In the case of #2, this is an example of he who has the biggest gun trying to take whatever the fuck he wants, and I beleive that if the U.N. goes along with this they are irrelevant, not the other way around the way Bush would have us beleive.


I would love to see a country or group of countries take it upon themselves to make the world a better place, for the simple sake that its the right thing to do, even though they have nothing to gain by it. I do not beleive that the U.S. is now or has ever been the country to entrust with that task, or would want to be, and I'm not alone here. It therefore angers me when they try and claim that they are following such idealistic motivations.

Can you please get that through your head ronnie. I support overthrowing saddam, I support doing a lot of things that need to be done in the world, but I do not under any circumstances believe for a second that the U.S. is the country that should be doing this. And a bunch of european allies that where armtwisted into supporting the U.S. in the first place doesnt validate them. I dont care that the government of Britain supports the U.S. on this, The PEOPLE DO NOT.


So anyway, I dont expect that you're going to try to argue that the U.S. ever intended to do anything but look out for its own interests and thats fine. Just understand that that is why I dont buy Bush's idealistic "destroy the evil" crap.