Questions for war supporters
You tell us we have to fight in Iraq to preserve American liberty. This reminds me of crazy old Mrs. Leonard, who lived at the end of the road where I grew up. She wouldn't allow her dog in the house during a thunderstorm because he'd draw in lightning. So I wonder -- what's the cause and effect relationship between preserving our liberty and Iraqis resisting foreign occupation? Just how would they convert us to Islam and force our women to wear burqas if we quit occupying their country?
So ... you really believe that Bush & friends made an honest mistake about WMD and Saddam's ties to 9/11? With spy satellites, space-age communications, and massive data-gathering abilities, the Bush administration just made a boo-boo? And that they launched the first war in history on the wrong country? And if you do believe Bush Co. only made a mistake about WMD and 9/11, why should we continue to fight a war based on false premises?
Do you really believe that the only way the US can be safe in the world is to conquer it? US forces can't even pacify Iraq -- there's no way they can whup everyone into submission.
How is it that this country held true to its traditional liberties even when faced with the Nazis and and Soviets, all commanding modern, well-funded armed forces and dynamic ideologies, yet we're supposed to surrender the Bill of Rights when challenged by madmen hiding in caves?
And make no mistake about it -- the constraints on government power represented by the Bill of Rights are clearly under assault. The Bush regime has violated FISA, conducting warrantless surveillance, claims the right to declare any American outside legal protection (just like in the Soviet Union), and further claims the power to declare martial law.
There's a reason for such constraints: Government power is always abused. Always. That's what the Founders understood, and why they established tight controls over the government.
We need those controls now more than ever. Bush and Cheney frighten me more than Padilla.
One more question: Why should the Islamomeanies try to destroy our freedom when the Trotskyite Neocons are doing it for them?
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Friday, April 11, 2008
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Notice, too, that even those who talk of how well our mission in Iraq is going always do so in terms of how strong the central Baghdad government is.
We know, of course, that this is opposite of how true peace and liberty is established. It BEGINS with a free people and culminates with a government based upon the protection of liberties.
In the case of European Man and his descendants, it is rooted in several centuries of Christianity, followed by the establishment of rule by law and representative government.
The U.S. is attempting to establish first the strong central government and hoping liberty will somehoe blossom from there. Combine that with the fatalism and subjugation inherent in the Mohammedan peoples, and one sees a project destined for failure.
Mark Slater, the Colorado COnfederate
Mark,
Well put! Only a culture of mutual trust based on the rule of law and individual liberty can give rise to limited constitutional government.
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