Originally posted by aarone
way to be unpatriotic douche
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
Not picking on you aarone I just think it is funny how easily people throw around patriot, and hero and other such words since 9-11
I think it sucks this kid was beheaded...I've seen the video, and I would not call it cut off, I would say sawed off is more correct.
I think the most disturbing thing to come about is how many people are ready to say..screw em, nuke em, f them in their a's and c on their chins...or whatever other slander.....but who are the "they's". It seems more and more often people are lumping all Arabs with the extremeists. Those animals(hope I did not offend any animals) who did the Berg thing are closely attatched to Al Quaida, not Saddam, not Iraq, not Syria..but Al Quaida...the real enemy we had before we had our fake intelligence, fake connections etc....Now Al Quaida really is in Iraq, they have a great recruitment tool, and a place to train and test their new recruits against real live US GI's. Way to go dubya...glad your in charge. Don't get me wrong I think Gore would have screwed up the hole afghanistan thing. We needed a bipartisan with real military experiance and true leadership like McCain....but I've beat that dead horse enough. All I can say is I hope all the troops come back safe, Iraq finds it's own peace with out a radical Shiite rule, and the family of that Berg kid get some break from the media, and a chance to heal from all this.