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Originally posted by Mike AI@Sep 9 2004, 02:10 PM
Do you deny that if Bush sent troops to Sudan, and were engaged in combat that many liberals and democrats would be calling Bush a war monger - and use this as "evidence"
I am sure a few groups would pop up saying Cheney has ties to the Sudan, there is oil there, etc....
Democrats do not stand for anything anymore..... the vote for Kerry because he is not Bush angle is not going to work.
PD do you beleive in evil?? Do you think evil exists in this world?
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First of all, I have no doubt that some Democrats would raise questions about why were were getting involved in Sudan, just as many Republicans have flip-flopped on the definition of American interests since one of theirs is in the White House.
But so the fuck what? How many fucking Republicans are SCREAMING about the six judicial nominees the Democrats refuse to pass on, when five years ago they were blocking DOZENS of judicial nominees themselves? How many Republicans are (now) justifying intervention in Iraq in terms that they categorically rejected when Clinton first proposed intervention in the Balkans?
Democrats and Republicans have many differences, but many of them share one thing in common - they are more than willing to flop when the other side flips. In spite of the screaming banshees on either side, no party has a monopoloy on hypocricy.
I find it hard to understand how you can launch an attack on the left based on the fact that politicians are going to act like politicians. I find your earlier references to the race of the victims even more puzzling - while I am sure there will be plenty of people who will raise questions about the need for red-blooded 'merikin tax dollars being spent to keep
them from killin' each other, those folks can be characterized as leftists.
Yes, I believe in evil, and I think we have waited far too long to intervene. That being said, I don't give a fine flying fuck who the victims are, who the victims pray to, or anything else. I'm all for stopping the killing, but the fact that it is Christians being killed, or the fact that it is people hiding behind Islam doing the killing, is completely and totally irrelevent to me.
I repeat my questions - on what basis do you assume that the left, the Democrats, whatever demon you're railing agains this week, would oppose humanitarian intervention in Sudan?
Is your interest in this situation truly humanitarian, Mike? What's important here, Mike? Is it that people are dying? Is it that
Christians are dying? Is it that
Muslims are doing the killing?