LOL. I read that in the Philadelphia paper (can't remember it's name) on a visit. Superbly done and a great post.
- Has Mr. Johnson tried to murder you or your friends (in our case = Kuwait) before - Has Mr. Johnson been convicted for attempted murder? - Is he out on parole? - Do you have a restraint order against him? (in our case = WMD he was supposed to give up) - Did Mr. Johnson violate the restraint order? (in our case = did not give up WMD) If the answer is "yes" to all of the above - shoot the bastard, it is obvious self-defense.
ahahahaha skeptic, I sure feel threatened by you. You know you have bad evil thoughts. And you have a nice property that you don't deserve to own or manage. Your evil thoughts may very well manifest into actions. It' very possible you can go out there and by a gun and shoot somebody. That is an evil evil thingy for you to do. Ahhhhh I cannot permit this. For the sake of my friends and neighbors, I have to protect them all from you. You are an evildoer and a threat to society. YOU MUST BE ELIMINATED. Court of law you say. Nuuuhhhh they are useless. Soooooooo, I'm coming over to take you out who's gona stop me. I got them tanks you know. Evildoer, I'm doing our free society a favor. I will let your children -the ones I don't get to slaughter- manage your property tho, under my supervision of course, and I will rebuild your house after I bulldoze it down. And we all will be living happily ever after No hard feelings tho you hear now?? ehehehe
To me having /possessing WMD is not material merely a pretext to bring forth to that farcial body called the UN. How can you take UN when they named Iraq to chair some sub-committee of disarmament and Libya of terrorism? I think leaders that have exceeded a certain threshold of "kills" need to be disposed of. Men such as Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Amin, Milosevic, Karazdzic need to hang in a lamppost for all the world to see. The world is not perfect, there will always be leaders with propensity to dispose of their problems by "whacking" them, but the men mentioned above are a little different judging by the sheer numbers and the manner in which they were carried out. Latin America, Asia had/have their share of despots but humanity has to draw a line when you reach say ....50,000 killed ?
It is very sad that you do not see any distinction between law-abiding me and violent, criminal, convicted felon, parole and restraint order violator Mr. Johnson. Then again I never credited anti-war movement with a lot of intelligence anyway.
Hey no hard feelings bud. I only want you to declare all your misdeeds and prove your innocence. btw, I AND ONLY I will be the Jury Judge AND Executioner --hehehe I really like the last one you know-- If you don't declare them, then for sure you are a good liar and playing games. As you can see now it's clear you deserve to be exterminated, for the good of my free society and all.
I've seen very good points from both camps concerning the war. There are a lot of people who fully support this war and also many people who totally oppose it. Perhaps we should look at it in a totally different perspective. Not much unlike the cells in our body, each of us are cells within a larger "collective society" which forms social norms and expectations. Also, not much unlike the cells in our body, none of us know the full ramifications of the situation. The president doesn't, Saddam Hussein doesn't and neither does any other "single person" within the collective. Now, obviously a heart cell is alive and performs a function that is vital to the entire whole that we call a person. However, the cell cannot understand or realize the greater whole to which it is contributing. Likewise, no one person can understand the situational dynamics that have led up to this war. So, putting aside our little egos, let's just assume we're all a slave to a much larger operating entity. What we then have is something playing out between two much larger systems that is incomprehensible to any one cell or person (continuing with the analogy). Now I know this seems really far fetched (and I'm not high right now), but given the fact that no one person who contributes to a larger system can know all parts of that system, perhaps the issue of the legality of this war with respect to the United States is entirely a mute point, since the United States of America is operating under an independent "global consciousness" that is simply using a self-defense reaction from 9/11. Perhaps the 9/11 event set things into motion that are much larger than anyone can truly perceive. If you touch a hot stove, you'll pull away quickly and scream and cuss. But larger systems take much longer to react, adapt and transform. So in essence, perhaps the United States is merely reacting to a serious incident that occurred over a year and half ago, but since the size and scope is much larger on this level, the entire reverberations of conflict between two larger states will take much longer to play out. Since the United States of America is still in the primal stages of a self-defense reflex, I doubt that any amount of diplomacy is going to stop the events that have already been set into motion. America feels highly vulnerable and, based on the components that make up the American society (American people), this entire country, if viewed as a macro-psuedosocial organism, is in a highly anxious state of existence right now.