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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:23 AM Original message |
War is wrong. |
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patrick t. cakes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
1. yeah, it is getting old...nt |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. why didn't the UN intervene when we |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. +1 |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. ah. you really are not putting that up against what was happening to libya protesters |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
3. Even worse when they don't flat out admit it's about oil. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:28 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. And all of Bush's old cronies are still running the show. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. If it was truly about oil, we would be supporting Qaddafi. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
38. self delete. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
57. Out of curiosity, what would convince you that something the US did in the Middle East |
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here_is_to_hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
5. Sometimes, these things just need to work themselves |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
6. Great. Now that we've cleared that up... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
9. Some wars are not only Right, but are necessary. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
18. WW2 would have never happened if not for WW1. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
40. Precisely! I point this out all the time--to people trying to talk me out of my pacifism. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Lol, America had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to enter |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. They would be Isolationists, decrying involvement in foreign domestic |
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patrick t. cakes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
33. love that godwin........nt |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
50. we put up with Gadaffi for over 40 years |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
10. Good God ya'll, what is it good for? |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
11. Only too happy to recommend n/t |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
12. False. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 01:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. So, in other words, you support killing some Libyans to save some Libyans. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. Not as simple as all that, I'm afraid. |
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MikeW (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
14. true ... sometimes its necessary ... WWII for example |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #14 |
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apples and oranges (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
17. Was it WRONG to stop the NAZIs? |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Would have the Nazis ever come to power if not for our involvement in World War 1? |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. So now that Nazis are our fault too |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. There is an argument to be made that may have been the case. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. would we have had ww1 i one small country didnt assinate another small countries |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 11:31 AM Response to Reply #19 |
73. +1 nt |
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isuphighyeah (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
47. Lol. n/t |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. So is inaction when a genocide begins. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:03 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. Tell it to the people of Rwanda. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. You're correct, and that's a good example of why the OP is wrong. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:02 AM Response to Reply #45 |
61. "Our involvement in Libya is NOT the same as our illegal/unnecessary war in Iraq" |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. You forgot the War on Poverty... |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
25. War can be right; that's as undeniable as the fact that |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. I try to keep morality out of it... |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
30. The right to life right entails the right to self-defense. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
31. The peace of the grave and of tyranny are sometimes the only alternatives. |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. What threat is Libya to the United States? |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 07:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
48. I said neither thing you are indicating. I did say that being against any and every war |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
36. so Roosevelt shouldn't have gotten us involved in WWII? |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. No, silly. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
49. um. well, silly billy, no one said WWII was great. that's a little fiction of yours |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #49 |
65. So saying WWII wasn't great is fiction? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 11:33 AM Original message |
wow. that was a spectacularly nonsensical and non-responsive |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
39. So if the United States has been in the MOST WARS... |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. Pretty goddamned wrong! nt |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. Very wrong. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:06 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. huh? |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
41. War is always Wrong |
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itsrobert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. +1 |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
51. Peace isn't profitable. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
53. + Infinity. |
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ProgressIn2008 (848 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
54. Well, if you're an aristocrat, war is actually pretty good. Fills the coffers, keeps everyone |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
55. True, but no US President started this one |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:49 PM Response to Reply #55 |
60. You're a Quaker? |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 06:10 AM Response to Reply #60 |
71. I oppose war |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. I appreciate your reasoned response. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
56. No, it isn't. Not always, not invariably. |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
58. The chain reaction makes sense |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
59. Pacifism is wrong |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:17 AM Response to Reply #59 |
63. When war starts bringing 'benevolence and justice to the world' we'll be in agreement. |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:26 AM Response to Reply #63 |
64. And you reply with a personal attack... I guess your "philosophy" can't stand up to scruntiny |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:35 AM Response to Reply #64 |
66. If you don't oppose it, you prefer it. |
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xenoturkey (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:58 AM Response to Reply #66 |
68. Amazing |
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WildEyedLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 01:08 AM Response to Reply #66 |
69. "It makes me a better person than someone who prefers war like you." |
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dave29 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
62. This planet has never known peace |
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Waiting For Everyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
67. It's wrong to empower a whole bunch of dictators too, but we already did that. |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-21-11 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
70. agree. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-22-11 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
74. War is wrong. |
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