We want out of the war because it's not getting us anywhere — not because of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
I was looking at Sunday morning TV the other day and watching that George Stephanopoulos bit where they show a list of our soldiers who’ve died in Iraq the past seven days.…
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26 - moonraven
Right 500,000 Iraquis dead--or 700,000 Iraquis dead: that's NOTHING at all.
So let's not even consider the big fat nothing that 1.2 million dead Iraquis represent.
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27 - Cindy D
It was very clever how you used the Nazi analogy (and also how you limited it).
OA, if anyone should be shamed by this article, it's you.
The fact that the point is missed by most is what makes the sting of the analogy valid.
And #5...what zingzing said. Apparently, some get it.
That's my two cents.
28 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
What a poor article...An uneducated Liberal making an analogy about something that he cannot
comprehend.
You wanna make a difference? Obviously, neo-hippies have proven that bitching & whining doesn't fix anything. The democrats are more interested in their favorite Baseball team than any kind of resolution. So, why not sign-up, pick up a f*cking gun and join the many that have re-enlisted because they feel that the good fight is always harder than turning your back on the world!! I don't see your beloved U.N. solving anything...
29 - moonraven
Brian: Tell us the number on your dogtags, war mongerer.
30 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
GARREPY
B.E. B POS
USMC M
NO RELIGIOUS PR
And no, jackass, I won't give you my SSN...
31 - Ninja
Brian:
"the good fight is always harder than turning your back on the world"
The "good fight" for Americans is fighting to keep its jackass politicians adhering to the Constitution they have sworn to uphold.
When politicians fail to uphold the Constitution, they turn their backs on their own country.
32 - Zedd
The analogy works in that:
- Iraqis have done us no harm to us. We have extrapolated the idea of their badness from propaganda about Arabs in general.
- Multitudes are dying and we don't even bother to speak of them. We know its happening...
-) We are consumed with the war and our boys and not what the war is.
- We are consumed with Islam but not concerned with how WE got to hate it so much.
- We see ourselves as great, even special, in the midst of all of this.
The Nazi's of WWII represent something. What do we learn from it? Alessandro it is pointless to have experienced something if we can not learn from it. Every experience is an education.
Not giving oneself the gift of self examination because you fear seeing what you don't like is costly. We will indeed repeat the sins of the past because we don't want to learn from the past. We would rather nit pick about inconsequential details and miss the bigger message. We must all remember that in the present evil is hardly noticeable. Whether it is Nazi Germany, South Africa, American slavery/racism, or Iraq, our impact on the planet, we don't see ourselves as bad. The future will judge us more accurately.