Comments on: My Hero did not Amuse me Today

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:51:41 +0000

If any of you out there still believe that Bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks, I suggest you watch the documentary “Loose Change”, its on the web for free.
The war in Iraq is a sham, its about oil and has always been about oil. The weapons of mass destruction, bringing Democracy to the people, blah blah blah is all a hoax. W was just finishing daddies work that was started in Desert Storm.
I’m from Canada, and proud to say that we have avoided all influence by Dubya and his cronies to participate in this horrendous atrocity that has been committed upon Iraq and it people.
Unfortunately we Canadians have been dragged into the Afghanistan fiasco, but we are moving towards strict deadlines to get the hell out of there too.
Just get the hell out of Iraq, and let the Iraqis settle their own civil war, and form their own government, not another puppet government placed by the US please. Remember the Sheik of Iran? You guys put him in there in the first place. I believe that you also gave Sadam most of his weapons of mass destruction that he used against the Iranians.
And regarding war crimes and possible retribution against the evil war mongers that are currently in power in the US, well, they’ve already taken care of that. Congress already passed legislation that absolves Bush and all his compatriots of any future prosecutions.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:18:47 +0000

March 28th, 2008
I’m glad we don’t have a civil war in Iraq.
Just a bunch of civilian factions shooting at the US Installed government sometimes shooting back, and calling in Air Strikes from the Occupiers and occasionally some of the government troops refusing to shoot the civilians that are shooting at them, because they are ‘their brothers’.
You, no civil war here. Just move on folks.

By: Locke

Locke — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:35:42 +0000

They must really have some kind of memory eraser being used on the American people, because it seems like nobody remembers that 9/11 had NOTHING TO DO WITH IRAQ!! Does nobody remember Bin Laden? How can anyone say we are in Iraq to protect us from terrorists when we are there fighting people that were strictly fighting eachother and there was no sign that they were even thinking about fighting us, while we have left the country and person/group that actually did attack us alone to get their next attack ready?? Bush and our government really is actively trying to destroy our country and kill our people obviously, by putting all of our forces halfway across the world in between 2 forces shooting at eachother, so 1: our defense can get weakened or wiped out, 2: our attackers are left alone so they can get their next one built up, and 3: when they do attack, our defense is all gone so they can rain mayhem on US soil. Get a damn clue already zombies.

By: Ulairion

Ulairion — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:34:53 +0000

“Good thing we stayed out of Argentina and let thousands of “disappeared ones” just vanish without trial. Their families don’t miss their loved ones as much as we would. Same thing for Peru and Nicaragua. Oh wait, we did help in Peru and Nicaragua, without losing any soldiers.”

I’m from Argentina, and there’s a little thing you might have not heard from called Plan Condor. It was a coordinated plan between South American dictatorships to exterminate the “communist threat”. Guess which country trained the paramilitary forces used in said plan to kill and torture anyone who might be a commie? That’s right, the good ol’ USA. The coup in Chile had support from the CIA because the democratic president was a socialist. OF COURSE the US wouldn’t attack the South American dictatorships, they were the ones doing the dirty war against communism for them.

I’m not blaming the American people, but their goverment really needs to stop messing around with the world like is their goddamn toy.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:28:56 +0000

We went there to get rid of Saddam and get the WMD. Well, we got the WMD before we even went, and Saddam is gone.

We won.

Come home.

If we come home in 25 days, there will be chaos in Iraq. If we come home in 25 years, there will be chaos in Iraq.

The Iraqi people want us to go. Once we go, the Shiites and the Sunni will spend the first 24 hours of our being gone killing all those who are in Al Qaida.

They hate foreigner’s, American, Syrian, Saudi, or anyone else. They see Al Qaida as foreigners.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:25:11 +0000

If Bush and his ilk cared 1 tenth as much about the legal citizens of the United States as they care about war and pumping up the population by legal and illegal immigration We’d all be twice as well off. At least.

By: dust4ngel

dust4ngel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:58:45 +0000

i don’t think the war is about terrorism - i think it’s about trying to avert the impending collapse of the US economy by taking over a natural resource of real value, as opposed to the monopoly money the fed prints out every year.

By: Ayawi

Ayawi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:49:11 +0000

Reading some of these comments, there are a few things that I would like to disagree with.
Carol, you seem to be forgetting exactly what this “war” is about. Yes, the original purpose was to conquer those that posed a threat to the US, but it has evolved from that into so much more.
The enemy has changed, the focus has not been on protecting the us for quite some time now. The focus is on rebuilding Iraq into a democracy, changing an entire country into something more acceptable, more similar to our own country.
Think about it this way…
The religion that these people were raised with teaches that violence is acceptable, that pain is glory. Our country is now in a battle to basically tell these people that their religion is wrong, and that the teachings they have devoted their lives to should not be followed.
Imagine what would happen if you walked into a catholic church and started telling all of the people in it that their god is bad. Telling them that they cannot do as the bible says, or they and their families will pay the price.
It isn’t a pretty picture, is it? This is the battle that is being fought right now though. Yes, the United States is hated, the same as the person who walked into the catholic church would be.
I do agree that something needed to be done to protect our nation after 9/11, but I disagree with the way that it is being done. There is no good reason for us to impose our laws and beliefs upon others in their own country. There is no end in sight, and there will never be until we can learn to defend ourselves without injuring others, and until we can learn to respect that which we don’t understand. Live and let live. Peace does not come from bullying, it comes from understanding.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:10:22 +0000

Carol,

You see Bush has succeeded in ingraining his ideology in you. He has successfully implanted the thought in your mind that what he is doing is right. Congratulations, you are now able to see only one side of the coin.

Well written article.

By: Carol Stack

Carol Stack — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:29:33 +0000

Why is it that the person who brings sense to this subject (Brennan Kingsland) can speak eloquently without using foul language, but the person who objects to what she says uses language that people used to have the decency to not speak (at least not in mixed company).

Bush is far from the worst president in US history. He is doing the best anyone could when dealing with a terrorist attack on our country where over 3,000 innocent civilians were killed. If we hadn’t taken the war to the source of the problem, the terrorists would have killed thousands more here in the USA. They hate us and would like nothing more than to have the whole world under Islamic law.