On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, Thomas came up with this...
TS> Interesting point of observation: According to our laws, approving of a
TS> crime is a crime (with some more accurate specifications but I am not a
TS> stinkin' lawyer). According to international law, the recent Shrubya's
TS> desert adventure is quite likely a crime. So our Wise Government, in its
TS> act of approval of a hostile aggression, according to their own rules,
TS> probably became a bunch of criminals.
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Doesn't that assume they were NOT criminals beforehand?
Sorry to hear your evil government is supporting my evil government,
although it's not surprising.
Anyway, I can actually believe that ~64% of Americans support the
invasion. On my school campus here on Staten Island, NYC, I'd say MORE
than 64% of the students and teachers support the invasion. It's sad,
because very few can even articulate why they believe we should invade
Iraq. They just think it is "necessary and just", because the Daily News
says so and the Post says so and the President says so, and god damn it
after Iraq we should invade France, and Iran and Saudi Arabia too, and
then maybe Germany, and...
It's very funny that the few of us who dissent are frequently called
'communists'. In my poli. sci. class they should know better, but they
don't because they're fucking dumb. They think Hayek is cold, cruel and
uncaring, they think Marx & Lenin had good ideas, they believe in price
caps and endless regulation, they believe in this invasion, and they
call us 'communists'.
People think violence on TV and in movies encourages violence in
children and adolescents, but what it really encourages is armchair
generals watching night-vision smart-bomb cameras annihilate dehumanized
'evil' targets, cheering on our 'boys'. It's the best reality TV there
is, and people can't get enough of it. I hope there's massive US
casualties. I hope they poison them. I have no sympathy, they
volunteered. They either think it is just or they don't think, and for
that they deserve whatever they fucking get. I have a couple of friends
in the navy, too, and before they left they both said the same thing:
"Well, I don't know if it's right, but I love my country, and it's my
duty to protect our freedom, blah blah blah..."
Loving your country doesn't mean going off to kill whoever they tell you
to kill, anyone who follows that line of reasoning deserves a horrible
painful death. The Shrubbery, in his grand speech the other night, said
that any Iraqis who commit war crimes and are captured will be
prosecuted as war criminals, and "just following orders" is not an
excuse. What about our war crimes? What about our soldiers invading a
sovereign nation, bombing cities teeming with innocents, our boys who
are "just following orders", shocking and awing a country devastated by
a decade of sanctions, will they be prosecuted? Of course not, everybody
knows Americans don't commit war crimes, how could one even suggest such
a thing! Heresy! Treason! To the gallows with him!
So when the next terrorist attack hits, maybe I'll be able to see that
one outside of my window too. How lucky I am to live in NYC. How proud I
am to be an American.
Fuck our 'boys', fuck the president, and fuck this country full of
spoon-fed sheep. They all deserve poison.
--
stuart
Anyone who tells you they want a utopia wants to put chains on the
souls of your children. They want to deny history and strangle any
unforeseen possibility. They should be resisted to the last breath.
-Bruce Sterling-
