Intimidation?

Submitted by Joris (Netherlands), Jul 2, 2008 at 08:21

"I know about intimidation.

& this girl packs it in there."

What?

I am not trying to attack you, so why in shiva/god/allah/whatever's name are you threatening me?

And now to get to the point: I must say that some of the things sara said actually made sense, but if we're are only there to *help* those poor people of iraq & afghanistan then why aren't we helping the poor people in N.korea or tibet or zimbabwe or libya or sudan/darfur or whereever? Obviously there must be other reasons for attacking those specific countries right?

Islam knows no boundaries? I don't want to bring you some unwelcome facts, but the fact that "evil terrorists" might attack sometimes is NOT automatically a very good reason to tart laying countries where muslims happen to live to waste... And be reasonable, this war costs shitloads of money (as wars tend to do) it doesn't solve anything, and in the course of the war more people will be killed on either side than because of so called evil islam attacks

Also, the comment about oil wasn't about the poor people paying less for oil, it's about large company's and people that have shares or ownership of such companys (Let's say, folks like G.W. Bush) they make loads of money now. And just a little while ago 4 large (western of course) oil corporations got acces to the huge oil reserves of Iraq thereby securing oil for America AND Europe.

BTW, the chance you're gonna get killed sitting in your car or crossing the street by an accident is a huge multitude of the chance you're going to be killed by a suicide dude. But seeing as you guys seem to want to focus on the "doing good things", I want to ask of you who the next dictator in Iraq is gonna be? Another one to attack Iran? (like Saddam?) Or do you honestly think you can institute a democracy by force??

And Chelsea, please don't think this response is because I'm scared of your intimidation.. It's because I feel sorry for people who throw their lives into pointless wars because they think they're doing something good for the world... It just saddens me for their fate and enrages me about those evil bastards that send them (AKA your government, my government&any other government that send forces)

But I don't really see the point of continuing this discussion, I mean, I will read any reponses probably but if you're just going to be aggresive at me I shan't reply again

Greetings from Europe!

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