Maybe you could take little breaks from the two or three of you who are entertained in some way by these semantic mazes. That is intended in a vibe of jest and not presuming to say that 'you're doing it wrong'.
I'm fascinated when I hear that I was in agreement with Mike on something, in this case, Iraq was an un called for war. Mike seems to also agree with me on the you break it you bought it scenario. I imagine the fork in the road would come where I say that 'buying it' has become way too common of a circular logic justification for war without end.
Since at least Roman times, it's been shown over and over again that the few with power encourage armed conflicts constructed by psychotics in control in order to justify military complex etc...It's the exact same thing that Washington and Eisenhower among others tried to warn people about. It's not something that gives me comfort to believe or makes sense of things or an indication that I'm a paranoid with a bomb shelter living off the grid and eating crickets. It's factually based history but you can't let the main stream on anything guide you since it's all connected to marketing. I'm not suggesting that everything that the main stream say's are lies or fabrications but that a well rounded person with common sense should no better than to give Meet The Press or Hannity etc...anything more than a quick monitoring. Of course if you agree with the neocon agenda of the US doing no wrong and being the superman of the world then you would buy everything the main stream sells since they never question the agenda of the crumbling empire which has already reached developing nation status on such things infant mortality and people lacking medical care.
Well don't get me wrong. I did think Saddam was an international criminal running a rogue regime that was a danger to the world community. In my opinion he had proven that in invading and annexing Kuwait.
I also felt that on paper he had committed mulitple acts of war against the US. But at the time, I just didn't feel it rose to the level of invasion. That's a vague gut feeling standard I'll admit. But I felt we had bigger fish to fry at the time. What I didn't know at the time was the curveball like info being feed to the Bush administration to make them think he wasn't just an international outlaw, but an iminent danger to the US.
