Originally posted by caltour:
Originally posted by bishop375:
If 12 of your peers, colleagues, friends, and coworkers came to you with the EXACT same information on something, would you not believe it, and with good reason? Would you not believe what you are told to be true, thus try to bring others' attention to it?


No, I would not just believe what I was told, even if many others said it to me. I would THINK FOR MYSELF. I would look at the information with an open mind. I would examine the evidence on which they based their conclusions. I would use my own reasoning power to draw my own conclusions.



Sounds exactly like why we went to war. The evidence available at the time, coupled with suspicious behavior and admitted possesion, with a history of mass murder and near lunacy, directly pointed to a potential threat that had to be removed.

The last time a manical leader who drummed up the kind of support Hussein had, we were attacked on December 7, 1941. We debated and debated about how Hitler wasn't a threat, just like you're saying now. So what if he slaughtered people in his own country by the thousands? So what if he attempted an invasion of a neighboring country a few years ago? Does any of this not sound like history repeating itself?

What would it have taken for you to agree with us being in Iraq? For Hussein to have killed a few thousand of us on US soil? Would civilians who couldn't ID Iraq on a globe have to die in order for you to take your blinders off? Please, enlighten me. Obviously, you're fine with us rolling into Afghanistan and engaging in a manhunt for one person behind the single most deadly act of terrorism acted upon our soil. I suspect if we'd rolled into Afghanistan on 9/10/01, you'd have been screaming bloody murder too, right? What makes that so different? In fact, bin laden, et al, should have been "less of a threat" since they never admitted to having bio/chem weaponry. But, I suppose that doesn't matter to you, either.

You people are all alike. You cry and scream for justice and claim police brutality all at the same time.

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