war in iraq Options

[brian_deegan]

do you support it or no?

[tkproduce]

I think that we could have won the Vietnam war if there were no protestors and draft dodgers.

so what would have happened if the US had "won" the war in Vietnam? Got rid of communism? Great! - maybe except for the fact that communism died out eventually there anyway even if there was no war.

Draft dodgers during the Vietnam War- why were there clearly more black people being drafted than white people? Most of them are poor, so why not make use of them and use them in the war? If that's not racism, I don't know what is. If there were clearly more asian people being drafted and I was one of them, then I would have refused. Even if I was white, I would have still refused because there was no point in the war.

Now, it's the "War against terrorism" as they put it. In effect, it has the same meaning as "war against hatred". Terrorism is an abstract noun - you can't touch or feel it, it's just there. There're probably a lot of terrorist activities going on even within the United States - the guy standing next to you on the train could be a terrorist. I don't know how bombing Iraq is going to make any progress to destroy "terrorism", but they better be doing something because I'm sure people don't want to be paying all their taxes for just manufacturing the next bomb and feeding the government officials.