Text 16849, 59 rader
Skriven 2005-11-23 09:35:20 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av FRANK SCHEIDT
Ärende: Re: Collateral Damage
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> President Bush calls it a "war" so as to increase the wild public
> enthusiasm for it even more.
 
So it's something like a football-game? Cheerleaders, luke-warm beer, hotdogs,
stupid commentators, the works?
 
Do participants in daily football-games also routinely get killed?
 
> This terrorist thing is going to go on forever.
 
You can say that again ... just watch again the opening scene of "2001 A space
oddissey" with the big apes discovering the possibility to kill.
 
Terrorism is something from all times. No highly sophisticated army is going to
change that.
 
> How will we ever know if we've *won*?
 
It's a war you can't win ... the only way to stop it, is eliminating the soil
on which it is rooted ... the causes!
 
At the moment the 2 grandest nations on Earth, the US and Russia, are military
fighting a war against terrorism but have no clue on defining who their enemy
is... because the enemy has no face, no uniform, no sign of rank, it can be
anyone and no-one, ... remember the words of Zun Tsu some messages back.
 
   "The victories won by a master of war gain him neither
    reputation for wisdom nor merit for courage. How subtle
    and insubstantial, that the expert leaves no trace.
    How divinely mysterious, that he is inaudible. Thus,
    he is master of his enemy's fate."
 
That is terror ...
 
> It is *not* a war ... it is merely a lot of fighting by our
> troops trying to make the world a safer place.
 
> Only Congress can declare war!!!
 
So when Prez.Bush on Sept.11th 2001 declared "We are at war" and by doing so
effectively cancelled the insurance contracts of any US-based air-carrier he
was lying or didn't know what he was talking about? My preference goes to the
latter.
 
Some interesting fugures ...
 
 1444 Deaths since war began (3/19/03) 
 1336 Deaths since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) 
 1140 Deaths since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03) 
  811 Since handover (6/29/04) 
  383 Since election (1/31/05) 
 
Only American deaths of course ... Iraqi-victims were stopped being counted
somewhere after 20,000 as that didn't fit the "liberation"-picture anymore.
 
 \%/@rd

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