A letter to Mr. Bush

[templest]

Dauntless wrote:

Here's what my standpoint is, what I've thought most people could establish from everything I've said about the US.

The war in Iraq is wrong because
a) The U.S. lied about its reasons for invading Iraq
b) The U.S. went against the UN resolution after Iraq was searched for WMD and none were found
c) The U.S. feels like it can justify it now as a war for freedom...which smells like they're grasping at straws.
d) Good American husbands, wives, sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, have died in Iraq because they started a war they shouldn't have.

I don't like when
a) people use sensationalized facts or fantastical stories to try and be sarcastic about it...the roleplaying isn't needed.
b) people say the war is justified; I haven't heard anything original yet.
c) the U.S. goes by the Truman doctrine and not the Monroe.

That's pretty much exactly what I think, although we could all do with a little humour now and zen.

[Dauntless]

I don't mean to be a miser, but I get enough "humour" from goddamn Republican Rob "The Metrosexual but actually a bisexual or homosexual" W. at school...and I hate it cuz he spreads the false sentiments by being a goof about it.

[jonos]

What the hell is going on here. I leave for a little bit to actually try and enjoy life, and I come back to this! On the eve of a Canadian election!!! Where are the threads saying that the Conservatives are racist homophobes and the Liberals are the best managers of our money. What the hell! People are still going on about the US just because it is here.

Well, if the US made up the WMD, then it looks like Germany and France did also, though they did not act on their intelligence. They thought they had the weapons also - without the help of the Americans. But people forget this.

Where are the people to back up my racist, shizzle-ass, motherfucking state of being?

Yes, the US went against the UN but an organization with countries like Sudan on a fucking human-rights council, I'm sure that holds very little clout. But that is just my ignorant, war-mongering self virtual speaking.

Yes, George Bush seems to like to change his reasons for going to war... but! Saddam was bad, had terrorists in his country, blah blah blah. Yes, you are still right though. But grasping at straws is still better than falling on one's ass (I may have not gotten the meaning of that thing).

You don't like it when people say the war is justified? Well your arguments are not the most original either.

I'm not too familiar with either doctrine, but the Truman doctrine was a sign of changing times (late 1940s and after the two great wars), while the Monroe doctrine was during the US's isolationalism (? spelling). I believe that the Monroe doctrine would also exclude peace keeping in Africa and the Middle East and other places.

I masturbate every night! I justify war! I like to kill Iraqis! Fuck the arabs, man! I am racist (sarcasm is hopefully an understood concept).

[Dauntless]

The Soviet Union and China are in the UN too, aren't they? They're both not unblemished politically either; tons of countries aren't. But Iraq shouldnt' have happened; their military budget could be reduced and used on things like peacekeeping rather than warmaking, on fighting AIDS rather than fighting Iraqis....that is, if America would be what it is today without its war machine fuelling a chunk of its economy.

And the US led the charge. The Nuremburg trials basically say that the leaders are directly responsible.

The Truman doctrine states that the US will provide military and economic support to any country under a dictator or oppressor, and give them democracy. I just don't believe that democracy is such a great thing that starving people, or soldiers for that matter, should die so the US can sprinkle it like fairy dust everywhere.

And I'm interested to have a thread like you mentioned. Make it so, PFC Jonos.

[jonos]

What thread? I put so little thought into this that I forgot... a sign of my fragmentation.

I am making headway, you are not as scathing as you were before.

In the fight against AIDs I think that the African dictatorships should be doing something for their starving people instead of robbing them of aid, jobs, food, medicine, and other things that make the wheel of a country turn. I say fuck the African dictators first, then fuck the US.

In conclusion, your ideals and values are what make you a softcore socialist (? maybe) and makes me a fucking racist fascist bent on raping all the women of the world.

[Dauntless]

I'm not scathing down here...I was pretty mad up there ^

[jonos]

Yeah, a lot of your points were insane now that you mention it... 8)