DomKen
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ORIGINAL: Sanity For that part of the argument, now this depends on intellectual honesty... go to the most logical source, which wouldnt be us. There are those however who we have been pointing to as consistent in their message, and one great example of such leftists would be the Code Pink people. Think of all the slogans that were thrown at Bush, billions for war but, uhm, how did that go... guns not butter? Something like that. "Bombing them isnt the answer, stop selling them bombs is". All that leftist antiwar rot, it used to mean something to everyone on the left but for most it was just a convenient tool for hammering away at the Republicans and once the Dems were in power that tool and those who really believed in the antiwar message were thrown away. Are we out of Iraq yet? Or Afghanistan? Gitmo closed? Are there "no more wars"? Or as Sarah Palin put it, hows that "hopey-changy thing workin' out for ya" quote:
ORIGINAL: tazzygirl I dont view their actions as similar. Can either you, Firm, or Sanity show me where I am missing the correlation? Maybe you are too stupid to understand this concept but I'll try to explain it in simple terms. There are pacifists on the left. They never see justification for violence even to prevent violence. Everyone on the left does not share their opinions. They seem to be the ones opposing the air strikes. The leftists who came to oppose the Iraq war weren't all pacifists. Most were people like me who felt the justification for invasion was a lie, the war wasn't being run well, our money was going to mercenaries and private contractors and the slaughter of Iraqi civilians actually got worse under US occupation. You interpreted it as political when it wasn't. This group bore a lot of similiarities to the coalition that came to oppose the Vietnam War under Johnson. The fact that many of us despised GWB before the Iraq War was immaterial, you can even go through my posting history here and see that I always oppsed the guy and was initially in favor of the war.
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