LadyEllen
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Joined: 6/30/2006 From: Stourport-England Status: offline
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I'm sorry NG, but your entire position then seems to rely on the idea that enlisting in the armed forces is an act preparatory to murder? I dont think many of those in Iraq now or in the last few years, wanted to be there. I would suppose that if their voting habits are representative of the whole US population, that a significant proportion didnt want the government that sent them there. I would posit even further that even the daftest out there have considerable reservations about the whole adventure by now, even if they didnt have them before. And I'm pretty sure that aside from a few lunatics perhaps, they dont want to be shooting at anyone, or indeed getting shot at. It is with the personalities running the US at the moment, and their backers and interest groups, and the policies they have instigated to achieve their own ends over and above the interests of the American people, that liability lies. To suggest that the front line soldier is guilty for the disaster as a whole or for specific incidents within the entirety is just plain wrong, in the absence of sufficient hard evidence of personal wrongdoing. One can argue that it is the populace which elects such an administration with which blame lies. Given the way that the US electoral system works however, this is hardly very fair either. If the proportion of support for Bush and his crew is similar to that for Blair here, then at best 40% of the US population could perhaps be held accountable - however, alike with here one has only a choice of Idiot A or Idiot B, and either Idiot does not necessarily ever live up to anything they advertise in order to secure a vote and indeed often come up with new bright ideas that are not part of their mandate, because of the way our systems work. I would suspect that had the Bush manifesto from the start put forward the idea of invading Iraq for the commercial interests of its' supporters businesses, (which given the strategic blunder it represents must be the case), then he would never have won any election. You are right though, that we have a problem, both in the US and the UK. Not because either people is stupid and easily led, not because either people thinks that invading other countries is a good idea - but because we are forced to live with an electoral and political system which is not representative and which furnishes us with a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche at every opportunity. Strangely enough, the turd sandwich and the giant douche appreciate this situation and when in opposition rail against it, but then when in power forget the lesson learned and perceive it to be far from their interests to change things in the system. It does not matter one jot, the way things are organised now, if the majority of both countries are suddenly converted to a certain way of thinking - the choice will still be the same; douche or turd, because those two are the only candidates with the resources and backing to make it to the final cut. E
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