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Re: Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:49:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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You actually think that the radicals who show up at “peace rallies” are in any
way indicative of the sentiments of the silent majority?
All of the denominations you mentioned also oppose the mass killing of
innocents at the hands of SH as well. Some just supported the decision to
actually do something about it.
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It is indeed a noble goal to stop someone from killing innocents, and to this
end Dubya should be held accountable for every civilian death in Iraq. Further,
and this cannot be stated often or loudly enough, the state primary motivation
for invading Iraq was that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and
that he posed a direct threat to the United States. Whatever happened to those
weapons, anyway? As far as I recall, Rumsfeld (in regards to whom I am inspired
to use such language as would get me banned from LUGNET) claimed to know exactly
where the weapons were. Well, Donny, where are they?
Whether or not we stopped Hussein from killing innocents is, ultimately, beside
the point. Our stated goal was to attack Hussein before he could attack us.
The fact that Hussein was a brutal dictator was used to justify the pursuit of
that stated goal, but it was not, in itself, the goal.
Alternatively, if Dubya’s goal was to oust Hussein because Hussein killed
innocent Iraqis, then he lied to the American public, to Congress, to the United
Nations, and to the world at large.
As an additional rhetorical note, appeals to “the silent majority” are akin to
claiming that we’ve discovered 75% of the oil on Earth. To claim to have
determined the will of the silent majority is to render that “majority”
non-silent, and in any case I’m not convinced that the silent majority you cite
is any more accurately representative than a silent majority I might cite.
Dave!
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| (...) Would that we could compare that number to the number of innocents who would have been executed by SH by now. Chances are the latter would be higher, and thus Bush's intervention actually saved the lives of innocents in total. (...) We know (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) You actually think that the radicals who show up at "peace rallies" are in any way indicative of the sentiments of the silent majority? All of the denominations you mentioned also oppose the mass killing of innocents at the hands of SH as (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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