[extropy-chat] urban sprawl as defense

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Stephen J. Van Sickle" <sjvans at ameritech.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:31, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> > Don't worry, she had claimed that the Iraqi invasion would take
> 100,000
> > lives. The occupation hasn't even taken a tenth of that.
> 
> To be fair, that was not an unreasonable prediction, had Hussein used
> chemical weapons and deliberately targeted his own people in an
> attempt to scare off the Americans, a scenario I don't find
altogether
> improbable.  A variation of the Blazing Saddles strategy.
> 
> A sound argument against the war before it started. 

Well, yes, it would have been a sound argument IF Samantha had also
thought that Hussein actually had WMD.... she didn't....

> 
> > Government being oppressive is a very rational behavior. Being
> rational
> > does not mean being ethical, moral, good, right, or honorable.
> 
> Exactly.  There are many good arguments other than "irrational". 
> Instead, I just hear "Bush is dumb", "it's the oil", "conspiracy",
> etc. Why doesn't the opposition get to the meat of the issue?

Cause they can't? Cause most people don't think there is any meat on
that side...

=====
Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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