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Perhaps if the world had been of one voice regarding getting a totalitarian brutal murdering maniac out of office, instead of giving him valuable international support, there would have been no war.
I blame "the coalition of the unwilling" just as much, if not more so than anyone else for the war. If a man is beating his wife and kids to death, we have a moral obligation to get in there and stop him. Those that used "peace activism" to support a brutal regime and perpetuate it by tading with him, are as guilty as a person who knows a child is being beaten, and endorses the behaviour.
Human rights FIRST
International sovereignty SECOND
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Yep the people against the war are more to blame, Riiiiight.
They are to blame for the 6-8 thousand civilian deaths caused by the coalition. Riiiight
The idea that either side of the conflict is morally superior than the other is a farce. Justify killing however you want, even if contradicts a rede or rule.
I will die, knowing that evil exists in the world, but my hands are as clean from the evils of war as I can get them.
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"Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.
Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth.
Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.
Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that….
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Martin Luther King, "Where do we go from here?", August 1967
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[ 08-11-2003, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]