Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on March 23, 2002 at 13:55:01:
In Reply to: Lighten up a little Mike posted by Gob on March 23, 2002 at 13:41:57:
: This is exactly why we were the victims of this terrible act of terrorism in September.
Did the people of Iraq steal those planes? Hell, did the government of Iraq even do it? Did even the people of Afghanistan or Pakistan do it?
No. A dozen brainwashed fundamentalists did it, as orchestrated by a couple of thousand awful murderous warmongers. Should we capture that cabal of warmongers and make sure that they spend the rest of their days in solitary confinement in supermax prisons? Of course.
Does that make attacking the innocent people of Iraq... the vast majority of whom want Sadaam out even more than we do... "funny" as targets of nuclear holocaust? No, man, no.
: But, here on this web board, I think no one means any harm. It was meant to make you chuckle and to I am sure Norman was using this bit of humor to show his red white and blueness...not his ignorance.
If joking about the mass slaughter of innocents shows ones American patriotism, I'm moving to fucking Toronto tomorrow.
It's letting this kind of insensitivity occur that makes us as bad... not as bad as the terrorists... but certainly as bad as the people who cheered in the streets after the planes hit. Probably worse.
: We can't solve all of the problems of the world here but it is good to know you are thinking about them. More should.
But... lets not exacerbate them here either.
Lets not... justify it and support it, either.
Mike