I hate Doonesbury
I hate Doonesbury in general, but especially today’s strip:
George W. Bush did not start this war. This guy…
and this guy…
did. The latter by refusing U.N. weapons inspectors access to parts of his country (which we naturally interpreted as an attempt to hide a WMD program). The former by orchestrating an attack on civilians in our country on 9/11.
Try to get your facts right, and don’t let your blind hatred of Bush make you say stupid things again.
Edit: Shrunk picture for formatting in IE/Firefox. It actually looked right on the Wordpress Default theme in 
, because Opera resized the image proportionally, instead of squishing it. IE was even worse, bumping my sidebar to the bottom of the page! Ick.
July 10th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
It does not matter who started the war. The war is here. People (Americans or not ) are going to die. No was is good war. However, I would rather live in and support a free country, (freedom of speech, religion, ideas) than rule by a system that dictate me which God to believe, or encourage me to blow myself up for God or blow up subway and buses.
July 10th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
I think that although war is not a good thing, sometimes it is necessary to stop a greater evil. Just think what would have happened if we’d let Hitler have his way instead of making the sacrifices necessary to stop him!!! We need to stop blaming people and start thanking God for our wonderful land of liberty and for our brave soldiers who are willing to make these sacrifices.
July 12th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
I love Pat Buchanan’s quote:
July 13th, 2005 at 8:03 am
I was reading Psalm 1:1 the other day and I noticed a type of person described that we see even today.
The “scornful” that are mentioned at the end of verse one refers (in the original Hebrew) to arrogant fools.
These are people, who despite the fact that they are richly blessed with much, will openly tear down and cut asunder anyone or anything regardless of whether it is good or bad. President Bush is by no means a perfect man, and I do not support him just because he is a Christian/Conservative/Republican. I PRAY for him because my God commands me to.
We also know that in the last days thanklessness will be overwhelming.
July 13th, 2005 at 1:28 pm
Pilgrim: Here’s the problem with that quote: At the time, we believed he did have the WMD’s. He refused the weapons inspections, and he’s made clear in the past his intentions towards us in the west. What choice did we have but to assume that he did have the WMD’s?
An analogy may help. Imagine that in a crowded mall, a man starts waving around a gun. The crowd scatters, and security is called. Eventually, the man is shot and killed. The security officers grab the gun, but discover that it’s unloaded.
The security officers did the right thing, don’t you think?
July 25th, 2005 at 4:48 am
The “war” in Iraq - who started it? Hmm. Big hmm. Saddam Hussein had UN inspectors there, but the US decided to get its War On, so they left with their job unfinished. Saddam Hussein had every motive to allow them to search like mad - he knew they weren’t going to find anything, and didn’t really want to be deposed by a war he’d surely lose. His problem was how to allow them to do this without seeming like he was giving in. (Imagine the US having Iranian weapons inspectors in.)(
There’s no connection between Al-Q’aida and Saddam Hussein. Actually, there is/was animosity there. They’re from different religious branches. Hussein would pay money to the families of Palestinians who had perpetrated suicide bombings in Israel, but otherwise was very contained inside Iraq.
OBL did attack the US, but had been doing that for a while - had you forgotten the Nairobi bombings, and the attacks on the US Navy during Bill Clinton’s administration?
The war in Iraq was not about OBL. Nor, really, about terrorism. It was about a different agenda of “bringing democracy to the Middle East”. What hasn’t been worked out is what the US would do if democracy doesn’t provide the government it wants. The evidence from South America suggests the answer is “destabilise them until you get the answer you want”.
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:54 pm
As Far as UBL not Like Saddam Huysen, and Vice Versa, Don’t forget that UBL hated our guts in the 80’s and still
had no problem working with us to get his “jihad” on against the soviets that were invading afganistan.
I’m sure he would have been happy to work with a fellow Muslim like Saddam to get his hands on a WMD and that Saddam
(who tried to kill Bush Sr.) would have loved to see AQ attack an American city with them. AQ gets the blame Saddam
gets to say “Who Me?” and you know that UBL doesn’t care if we know it was him.
Get some Marines. Semper Fi.