Differing Viewpoints

Today, on the internet I read a comment by a jerk calling for the execution of President Bush.

“W should be classified an enemy combatant, hung, drawn and quartered, while his family watches (including the new in-law). Without trial, that is.

I mean, after all, I wonder if the terrorists are winning. Think about it, they’ve succeeded in dragging us into a wild goose chase of a war that has resulted in nothing but a big, fat budget deficit from day one. Whose side is this guy on, anyway?”

I’m simply fed up with stupid people making stupid statements!

People continuously complain about the Iraq War and the costs associated with it. I imagine people would have had the same complaints if the USA had tried to remove Idi Amin from power, or Stalin, Hitler, Hirohito, or Mussolini. Oh, wait, we did remove Stalin, Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, and lost almost 700,000 soldiers doing it.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who slaughtered his own people. Mass graves are still being discovered.

So the UN inspectors didn’t find any weapons of mass destruction. God forbid that they should have looked anywhere in the miles and miles of desert, or even in hiding places outside Iraq’s borders. We all know that Saddam Hussein would never have asked his allies to assist him with hiding anything.

Good thing we stayed out of Argentina and let thousands of “disappeared ones” just vanish without trial. Their families don’t miss their loved ones as much as we would. Same thing for Peru and Nicaragua. Oh wait, we did help in Peru and Nicaragua, without losing any soldiers.

Good thing we aren’t trying to stop the genocide anywhere else in the world, like Darfur or Armenia, because costs would be very expensive. But, oh yes, we ARE pouring big bucks into trying to help the poor starving refugees.

I think the USA needs to concentrate on straightening out things here in the USA, but that doesn’t mean we should ever ignore the suffering of helpless, innocent people.

Fortunately, no matter how much “without a trial” rhetoric we hear by the ‘anti-Bush, foaming at the mouth radicals’ that’s not the way we do things in the USA. If we did, we’d have to “hang, draw and quarter” almost every member of Congress, plus all the supporters of the Iraq war who are realistically worried about Iran, Libya, the rest of the Middle East and all the people and countries around the world who HATE the USA.

Obviously it’s going to take something bigger and more deadly than 9/11 before some people even begin to understand that not only are there are people who HATE the USA but they are plotting to destroy it. There truly is a ‘War of Terror’ being waged against this country and our few remaining allies.

I’m old enough to have seen some of this foaming at the mouth rhetoric and hatred run amok. JFK was assassinated for his efforts.

And even though I wasn’t alive at the time, SOME of the history books still bother to mention that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) for his efforts to free the slaves.

I’m NOT a fervent Bush supporter. I think he is a stumbling orator who often acts like a buffoon. He has people around him who have great influence over everything he says and does. But he is NOT a dictator who has ordered the genocide of an entire segment of his own people (no matter what Jeremiah Wright screams out from the pulpit).

People are going to have to STOP making these stupid “without a trial” statements if they ever expect to be taken seriously by anyone but Jeremiah Wright’s congregation and the rest of Louis Farrakhan’s supporters.

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