hmm,. i´ve wondering about that lately.
specially after i read some comments on scott ritter on the war, and past quotes from todays US leaders who 10 years in advance, had a prophetical view on today´s war.
in the light of such heavy arguments against the war, and the ludicrous argument of WMDs, then the shameless switch into a "freedom war" and the US being safer than ever because the invasion of iraq, and etc, etc, i read today an article on a newspaper on the subject.
it was a translation from an article on the boston globe from september 21 2004.
so i found the original (i think so) of the article online and here it is...
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The war policy of George W. Bush -- "preventive war," unilateralism, contempt for Geneva -- breaks with tradition, but there is nothing new about the American population's refusal to face what is being done in our name. This is a sad, old story. It leaves us ill-equipped to deal with a pointless, illegal war......
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We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for. But that means we cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others -- even when we cause it. We don't look at any of this directly because the consequent guilt would violate our sense of ourselves as nice people. Meaning no harm, how could we inflict such harm?
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i see that as a special underlying assumption on several conservatives posters on this board.
anyway
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0921-01.htm
thoughts???
specially after i read some comments on scott ritter on the war, and past quotes from todays US leaders who 10 years in advance, had a prophetical view on today´s war.
in the light of such heavy arguments against the war, and the ludicrous argument of WMDs, then the shameless switch into a "freedom war" and the US being safer than ever because the invasion of iraq, and etc, etc, i read today an article on a newspaper on the subject.
it was a translation from an article on the boston globe from september 21 2004.
so i found the original (i think so) of the article online and here it is...
.....
The war policy of George W. Bush -- "preventive war," unilateralism, contempt for Geneva -- breaks with tradition, but there is nothing new about the American population's refusal to face what is being done in our name. This is a sad, old story. It leaves us ill-equipped to deal with a pointless, illegal war......
....
We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for. But that means we cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others -- even when we cause it. We don't look at any of this directly because the consequent guilt would violate our sense of ourselves as nice people. Meaning no harm, how could we inflict such harm?
.....
i see that as a special underlying assumption on several conservatives posters on this board.
anyway
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0921-01.htm
thoughts???