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We've heard day in and day out about people demonstrating against the US and Britain for planning to wage war against Iraq. Has anyone heard of Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and others openly demonstrating also. Has anyone also heard of South American countries from Panama all the way down to Brazil and Chile openly demonstrating against the war with Iraq? Seems to me like it's only the French and the Germans plus some factions in the US. Not even Russia have open demonstration. I wonder why.

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very true, I come here to escape reality

      I recently decided to stay off the political fence here at the forums, but I need to express something to our freinds and neighbors accross the way who most likely only see what "The Media" sells them. America is behind our President and the Men and Women fighting for all of us at this very moment.
    If anyone in our domestic antiwar movement offered me a convincing alternative to a war to eliminate Saddam Hussein, I would be the first in line to sign up. But the protestors do not offer serious solutions to the threat of weapons of mass destruction or the agony of the Iraqi people. They merley shout well-intentioned slogans, bond briefly, pat themselves on the back, and go home to their insulated lives.
    If platitudes could change the world for the better, I would be out there myself, marching in favor of universal disarmament. I credit the anti-war movement within the United States with sincere emotion. But it is utterly lacking in intellectual integrity. An earnest, if vague, sense that war is bad may inspire the undergraduates of America, but it does not prevent massacres, depose tyrants or deter terrorists.
Consider the greatest lie that adorns those painted posters, as our fellow citizens march in the streets chanting: "War doesn't solve anything."
    On the contrary, war solves a great deal. Not always for the better, that I grant. But fortunatley, the good guys HAVE WON more often than not, for the past few hundred years. Do the protestors believe that our Civil War, which ended the institution of slavery in our country, failed to solve anything? Would we be better off had blacks remained in bondage on our soil? It was civil society, after the war, that failed african Americans.The SOLDIERS did their part and changed history all for the better!
    As a man with some remaining shreds of conscience, I wish the protesters were correct, that war was pointless and useless, and that we could abolish it. But humankind is not made so. It is easy for actors and actresses like Susan Sarandon or Sean Penn to look through their rose-colored sunglasses and say "No War". Singing songs, however lovely the voices, will not soften the killer's heart. If you leave these shores, where you can duck into a cozy Starbucks after an hour or two of protest marching and celebrate with a latte, the world rapidly takes on a different coloration. How would the protestors feel if they had to live under Saddam's regime for even a few months? Without a decaf or mocha latte in sight?
    I would feel much more sympathetic to the anti-war movement if they would offer me rigorous answers to a few straight foward questions:

    1. Do you honestly believe, after 12 years of failure, that U.N. Inspections can disarm Saddam Hussein? If your reply is "Yes", or if you refuse to believe the evidence that Saddam posseses weapons of mass destruction, wants more of them, and intends to use them, proceed to question #2.
    2. Should we simply turn our backs on the Iraqi people and allow Saddam to continue to torment and murder them? Should we, thereafter, allow one of his homocidal sons to succeed him? Don't the people of Iraq, who have been gassed, tortured, raped, shot and starved (while Saddam builds dozens of vast palaces for himself), deserve liberation? Or is freedom only for educated people and Hollywood activists?
    3. What would YOU do, in practical terms, to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction and their eventual use by terrorists against us?. NO generalities, please  -  specified answers are required.
    Until our anti-war activists, with their presumed monopoly on virtue, can answer those questions, I shall remain unconvinced that they know whereof they shout. It is not enough to oppose, if you cannot offer convincing alternatives. Progress and security demand a sense of responsibility. It is always satisfying to complain, but far harder to forge solutions. It is, above all, the dishonesty and the moral might of the anti-war movement that disappoints me.
    I wish the activists had better solutions  -  genuine alternatives to war. I wish they would engage the rest of us in intellectually. But behind the fashionable poses and quaint campus anger, the closed minds and indestructible prejudices of the anti-war movement are cause for dismay. How can we speak with those who are always shouting?
    I speak for the majority of Americans, we are behind our troops and the troops of the free world in this fight against terror. Now is the time to stand up against evil and show support for the good people, the everyday people, OUR People who are out there, on the front lines for all of us, so you don't have to worry about relaxing at Starbucks and being blown up while you sit there and drink your Double Dipped Mocha Decaf Latte!


I Just wanted to let the world know we are behind Our President, Our Free Country and Our Soldiers who are about to Change the World for the good of all man-kind.

In the words of George Bush, " We are a peaceful nation,..... but angry when stirred "


     

Well said, Fly2E. As much as everyone hates war, it is sometimes necessary for good to triumph over evil nomatter the costs