Subj : Re: Mandrake vs Suse To : comp.os.linux From : Matt Date : Fri Aug 27 2004 12:10 am SkipC wrote: > Gerard Wassink wrote in message > news:<1ugrpijq37zm2.8k8dohw4l4qm$.dlg@40tude.net>... > >> - bomb innocent civilians on different occasions > > Oh yeah right, we purposely sent bombs to kill innocent civilians, just > cause our leaders were having a bad day. You really believe a civilized > nation does things like that? If our leaders ordered such things, it > would come to light.. Believe me, our news agencies love to dig up > political dirt. If civilians got killed through any bomb of the US, I'm > sure it wasn't intended for innocents. We're only after the bad guys > that are trying to kill us, that's really all! This is nothing to do with Iraq! The "bad guys trying to kill" you, presumably the 9/11 terrorists, aren't in Iraq. They will not be removed by a full scale war, but by carefull assasinations etc. It's a job for the secret service (whatever it's called). If they can plot mass-terror, they've got enough sense to hide. >> - go to war because another country alledgedly has weapons of >> mass-destruction instead of naming the real reason > > Let's see the real reason?? We simply invaded Iraq to take their oil, > right? While I agreee there were no WMDs found and the intelligence was > wrong (btw, seems like I remember Russia supplied much of that > intelligence). The US government relies on *_Russian_* intelligence?!?!?!?! They bomb a country because of what someone else said? Do they not have their own intelligence? Why did they not confirm the 'facts'? That is no excuse. > It still holds true, Saddam Hussien needed to be overthrown, most Iraqia > agree. Even with the bad intel, I believe getting rid of Saddam was a > good thing... I'm also wondering, if we invaded Iraq to get their oil, > why are our gas prices going up so high? Hopefully they'll go up in line with other countries, to lower consumption and promote conservation of the limited resource. Might get some 15 mile-per-gallon gas-guzzlers of the American roads... only then there'd be no American cars left, ooops. > I'm paying almost 1/3 more than > before. We're paying about two dollars per gallon, while Iraqis pay only > 5 cents a gallon. With a price difference like that, sometimes I wish we > would take a little of their oil.. Where would _you_ rather live? A foreign madman isn't going to bomb you in the USA. >> - sleep around crying for *moral* and *standards* Americans are perhaps >> not "proud and elegant", but if you would be an example of an average >> American (which I do not believe BTW), I'd think you people are dumb >> and ignorant, *totally* unaware of what's out there in the big bad >> world outside of your little island you are "proud" enough to call a >> continent... > > Seems like the very same countries that throw stones are guilty of the > same. Sure, we're not perfect by any means, but we rarely call other > people stupid. Talk about putting people on the defensive! Oh well, I > won't call you stupid, but I will call your remarks hurtful. I hope > other people in your country are nicer and more tactful. By the way, we > do live on a continent, not an island. We're also very aware of world > events, at least all the people I know are.. You live on part of a continent. But I suppose they don't teach you about anywhere north of Minnesota except Alaska. -- Matt -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- .