Well hello there my beloved non-existent supporters and minions. I hear its cool to voice one's political opinions on LJ, so here I go
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hi you don't know me, i randomly saw your journal on someone's friends page. i usually don't comment in strangers' journals (actually i usually don't comment in anyone's journal, i don't even write in mine anymore) but i felt like responding to what you said. i figure you wrote a lot of it to get a reaction of some sort from people and i noticed that nobody commented so i sort of felt compelled to. i know i'm pretty late on this but whatever
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5. "what progress is there in pacifism?" i don't think pacifism always works in an applicable way but what do you consider progress? yes saddam hussein has done horrible things and yes we got him but over 30,000 people on both sides are dead (and that's an old figure), people on both sides are still dying (officers and civilians alike on their side), iraq's government is in shambles, dozens of schools, homes, hospitals, places of worship and government offices are rubble, there is no end in sight to the conflict and billions (literally) of dollars down the drain (yet still not enough body armor and ammunition), so surely you can understand why some people don't like this war, right? i'm not saying i wouldn't have gone to war if it were up to me but i wouldn't have rushed in with no plan for a sustainable reconstruction afterwards, and i wouldn't have ignored the U.N. and attacked before proof of any threat and i would've not authorized bombing if i wasn't completely sure it was a military site
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