Edited by author 03-21-2003 12:58 PM
It saddens me that you believe this clap-trap about massive civilian casualties. "Killing civilians everyday"?? The war has only been on for a couple of days and there's been precious little independent confirmation of *any* civilian deaths. Where in the world are you getting your distorted "facts"??? Yes, folks will die. But somehow their accidental deaths are FAR MORE IMPORTANT than the 10's of thousands that the genocidal Saddam & Sons have slaughtered over the years? And people from the Continent have the nerve to call Americans arrogant??

And then the tired old, "all about oil" thing. Get real! The US has been getting along fine virtually w/o Iraqi oil for a dozen years. Oh and by the way, the proof is all there that it is the FRENCH that were obstructing things out of greed. They were illegally selling all sorts of armaments to support the Butcher of Baghdad. And it is more applicable to say that it was about oil for the French to offer their kneejerk veto threats.

To claim that the media and US Gov't are engaged in brainwashing is about the most phenomenally ignorant statement I've ever heard. First off, the vast majority of reporters are quite left-wing. And although the Bush administration is actually fairly moderate, the biased media portray them as right-wing extremists. So where do you see collusion between them?? Ignorant, just plain ignorant. And if you're not getting your favorite German misinformation channel, complain to your cable company. Unlike in other parts of the world, the Gov't *here* doesn't tell them what to do, most likely nobody but you was watching that channel and they decided to show something that would bring in advertising dollars.

And then you trot out the extremely naive "All killing is evil." Baloney. The cost of freedom has always been blood and will always be until the wimps of the world stop caving in when there's the least threat of hostilities. "If Good kills does it not in turn become Evil?" There's a name for nations that believe that -- conquered. Funny, killing was good enough for Europeans when American blood was called for to save them several times last century. It wasn't Evil then. No, unfortunately, sometimes Good must resort to violence to resist Evil. But many in the world seem to take for granted that it is the US that will shed the blood for their freedom, and because we hold freedom so highly, we're pretty much always willing to shed that blood. When the French and Germans drop their holier-than-thou arrogance and start laying *their* lives on the line, THEN they have the moral authority to debate the rightness of this war. Otherwise, they have ZERO credibility on this issue.