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Originally posted by Griff
The CS Monitor reports thst the young are more likely to support an Iraqi conflict, than us old farts. Why? You'd think kids who grew up in the Clinton years would have a bit more cynicism.
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First off the Christian Science Monitor is hardly a reputable and valid news source. Second Why would kids be cynical after growing up in the clinton years? I wasn't aware 8 years of unprecedented economic boom that had nothing to do with the previous president was something to be cynical about.
And people ARE cynical and don't believe a war mongering idiot like GWB who has yet to provide a single link between Al Queda and Iraq. Thus far Iraq has never attacked American soil, never helped anyone else attack American soil, never paid anyone to do it, and never harbored or supported those who have and not one shred of evidence has ever been given to the public to the contrary. And this is despite the fact that in 1991 America launched an unwarranted and illegal attack on Iraq and subsequently starved their people to death and kept life saving medicines from them. Iraq is a sovereign nation and doesn't answer to any other sovereign nation including America. America has no authority beyond our own borders and we aren't the boss or police of the world.
If GWB wants to send Americans to fight he MUST provide actual proof. And why is GWB so hot to start a war when he himself pulled every string he could to stay out of the Vietnam war? It’s because he's a hypocrite. When he does drugs it's a "youthful indiscretion" but when other people do it they must be locked in jail forever. When he's going to fight in a war, it must be avoided at all cost, but when he's not the guy in the trenches, it's just fine.
Iraq poses no threat and never has. Why isn't GWB going after Korea who just said they've got nukes? Why doesn't he go after an actual threat? Because he's a bully and like all bullies he wants to go after the weak.
I served in the military and I would never fight in this war or the one in 1991.