03-05-2003, 01:11 AM
Ok, this thread is officially out of control. 7 pages?
I like Alan Colmes' comment on the issue. We just got him on the radio here in Dallas and it's a god send. I'm not a liberal, I side with conservatives most of the time, and I do think for myself. But his comment was this regarding the Human Shields...
"I'm a liberal, and when people who call themselves liberals do these kinds of things, it makes all of us liberals look stupid." - Alan Colmes, 3/3/2003
To me, they are now pawns of Saddam, and guess what? That's their right to leave the land of the free to go over to a country that hates them. But when they actually thought that they were going to be allowed to protect non-military targets, they may have been sucking on the bong a little too long. When it comes to murderous dictators, you don't trust anything that they say. In the 60's, these tactics were all fine and noble. But try that with someone who can be comparable to Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin's ideology. The thing we forget about Saddam is he is a classic psychopath, which means he cares not for anyone's life. He executed his own son-in-laws for goodness sake. I would also proclaim him a political genius in the Middle Eastern world. Much like Hitler, he usurped power and killed all his opponents. Anyone who speaks against him in that country is a walking dead man. And even more like Hitler and Stalin, he located the useful idiots who are so idealogical and foolish that he was able to maintain his power.
I'm glad that in my country, the USA, we have the right to free speech. I think it's GREAT that we have the power to say, "Bush is an idiot, Clinton is a moron, etc" and not risk death for it.
Stalin used to say, "To maintain power you must have useful idiots." The big fear I have for these people over there is that when they don't play along with Saddam's wishes, they are no longer useful idiots. If they are in Iraq when the bombs start bursting in the air, they will be forced at gunpoint to be human shields of the military targets. If they refuse, they are no long useful idiots and become useful hostages or worse, useful worm food. Saddam could EASILY take them hostage and hold them prisoner in ANY military target for them to await their death at American hands. To run a well run dictatorship, you must take a lesson from Stalin, Hitler, Khruschev, Castro, Khadaffi, the Ayahtolla Khomeni, and King Fahd. Propaganda fuels your power and support. If Saddam can drag out dead Americans and show his people and the world that Americans did this to their own people, get ready for a big problem.
I have a bigger fear that we will be distracted with a rescue mission as well as a war. Remember in the Gulf War, Saddam took many reporters prisoner. He beat them and starved them until the war was over. And these were people that could go home and tell EVERYONE what he did. I think the movie Midnight Express sums up what these poor, misguided, misdirected people are in for.
I like Alan Colmes' comment on the issue. We just got him on the radio here in Dallas and it's a god send. I'm not a liberal, I side with conservatives most of the time, and I do think for myself. But his comment was this regarding the Human Shields...
"I'm a liberal, and when people who call themselves liberals do these kinds of things, it makes all of us liberals look stupid." - Alan Colmes, 3/3/2003
To me, they are now pawns of Saddam, and guess what? That's their right to leave the land of the free to go over to a country that hates them. But when they actually thought that they were going to be allowed to protect non-military targets, they may have been sucking on the bong a little too long. When it comes to murderous dictators, you don't trust anything that they say. In the 60's, these tactics were all fine and noble. But try that with someone who can be comparable to Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin's ideology. The thing we forget about Saddam is he is a classic psychopath, which means he cares not for anyone's life. He executed his own son-in-laws for goodness sake. I would also proclaim him a political genius in the Middle Eastern world. Much like Hitler, he usurped power and killed all his opponents. Anyone who speaks against him in that country is a walking dead man. And even more like Hitler and Stalin, he located the useful idiots who are so idealogical and foolish that he was able to maintain his power.
I'm glad that in my country, the USA, we have the right to free speech. I think it's GREAT that we have the power to say, "Bush is an idiot, Clinton is a moron, etc" and not risk death for it.
Stalin used to say, "To maintain power you must have useful idiots." The big fear I have for these people over there is that when they don't play along with Saddam's wishes, they are no longer useful idiots. If they are in Iraq when the bombs start bursting in the air, they will be forced at gunpoint to be human shields of the military targets. If they refuse, they are no long useful idiots and become useful hostages or worse, useful worm food. Saddam could EASILY take them hostage and hold them prisoner in ANY military target for them to await their death at American hands. To run a well run dictatorship, you must take a lesson from Stalin, Hitler, Khruschev, Castro, Khadaffi, the Ayahtolla Khomeni, and King Fahd. Propaganda fuels your power and support. If Saddam can drag out dead Americans and show his people and the world that Americans did this to their own people, get ready for a big problem.
I have a bigger fear that we will be distracted with a rescue mission as well as a war. Remember in the Gulf War, Saddam took many reporters prisoner. He beat them and starved them until the war was over. And these were people that could go home and tell EVERYONE what he did. I think the movie Midnight Express sums up what these poor, misguided, misdirected people are in for.