[plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia

[Jon Miller]

Let's look at some facts
Saddam as we know will kill anyone that gets in his way - correct?
Bush while Governor of Texas never saved anyone from death - correct?
So what we have here are two (2) individual from different parts of the world, one likes to kill and the other doesn't care if folks are killed.  
What does this suggest? Neither give a damn about the human life.  Neither could care less if a lot of people got hurt/killed.

So what's the answer - both should be shot.  Both are bad for the world and they are going to play this to the end until either one or the other is killed and for what?  Arrogance, oil, this may be true considering the price for gasoline in the states.

Now let supposed for a moment that Bush is on the up and up and he knows something that the rest of us don't as they are suggesting.  With the technology the US possess maybe they do know something we don't.  But if I was Saddam, I would put my bombs and missiles very close to the my oil reserves and if the US launches an attack they would only be destroying the very thing they may be after.  Do you think the US would launch its attack?
In the US a person with a gun is not considered dangerous until he commits an act of violence, well a person in possession of nuclear bombs should be considered the same.  So if the US think Saddam shouldn't have the bombs, then the US needs to rid itself also of it's bombs.  I've always hated the US ideology that they (US) are better than the rest and what they say is one thing from what they do.
Believe me when I tell you this is the mentality of the American public.  "Do as I say not as I do"
We were always told to treat everyone as equals yet it was never practiced.

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> bret at busby.net 5:57:05 PM 2/02/2003 >>>
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, James Elliott wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:11:25 +0800
> From: James Elliott <James.Elliott at wn.com.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au 
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au 
> Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Goodbye, Columbia
> Resent-Date: Sun,  2 Feb 2003 14:11:43 +0800 (WST)
> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au 
> 
> I would rather the Yanks have the nuclear weapons than Osama Bin Laden or
> Sudam Hussein ......
> 
> A good analogy can be seen in our attitude to the civilian police - we don't
> like them, but in today's society they are a necessary evil.
> 
> At least any democratic, pleace loving country has nothing to fear from the
> USA, and I don't think that will change in the forseeable future ..... but
> if America disarmed itself and China (a despotic nuclear nation) decided we
> had too much land for too few people and invaded us, who would stop them?
> 
> 

It is a pity that we lost the second world war.

We have a megolomaniac warlord, who was not elected to power, but who 
took power through skulduggery, controlling the world, with his allies 
Blair and Howard.

The worst and most horrendous war crimes, in the history of life on this 
planet, were committed by the USA, in Hirohima and Nagasaki.

In the second world war, when Germany was going to invade Poland, 
protests were made, and, the invasion started the second world war. The 
differences, this time around, is that the USA is going to invade 
another sovereign nation, with the assistance of the UK and Australia, 
and this time, Germany is the goodies, and the USA, the UK and 
Australia, are the baddies, and, the war criminals (if nukes are used), 
and, this time, the world simply doesn't care.

Whatever people may think of the Iraqi government, it is a legal 
government, which is more than can be said for Bush's presidency, and no 
country has the right to toverthrow the legal government of another 
country without just cause, and, there is no just cause, in this case.

Ever heard the saying, "what is good for the goose, is good for the 
gander"? Have the UK, the USA, and Australia, fully disarmed? If not, 
why not? What right have they to have arms, and, Iraq, not?

And, how responsible is Howard, for the deaths and damage caused by the 
bushfires in Australia, when he regards it as more fun to kill arabs, 
than to defend Australia? He and his governmnet refused funding for the 
large firefighting helicopters to deal with the bushfires that have 
occurred, instead spending our money on sending our mercenary military 
to fight for Bush, in his war to terrorise the world.

We are ruled by a murderer, as are the USA.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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