Murderous Terrorists Kill Brits

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

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3) Whatever dude. I have a right to express my opinion, and I believe my opinion is VALID. Only stupid people don't learn from history.

Only stupid people look at history and warp it to support their ideas. I believe you believe that if we all just try hard we can all get along and make the planet a hunky dory place, but unfortunately interpersonal and international interactions don't quite work that way.

Originally Posted by lookout123

Only stupid people look at history and warp it to support their ideas....

You mean like the Bush administration, most notably Dick Cheney ("overwhelming" evidence shows a past relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida"), insisting that Saddam Hussein had some nebulous connection to al queda and thus a role in the 9/11 attack?

As late as this week, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, in an exchange with Chris Mathews:

Fleischer: "After September 11th having been hit once how could we take a chance that Saddam might strike again? And that's the threat that has been removed and I think we are all safer with that threat removed."

Matthews: "I'm proud that we no longer have an administration that uses that kind argument...and the American people are too."

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by lookout123

Only stupid people look at history and warp it to support their ideas. I believe you believe that if we all just try hard we can all get along and make the planet a hunky dory place, but unfortunately interpersonal and international interactions don't quite work that way.

No. I KNOW that there are some people who, no matter what, will CHOOSE to continue fighting. I am not stupid. I know how human nature works. It's messy, and complicated, and things are rarely as simple as they seem. I am not trying to warp anything to fit my ideals. I am trying to look HONESTLY and OBJECTIVELY at how OUR ACTIONS cause certain results. If people aren't ever willing to look at their own behavior, then how smart are they? I would say, not very.

You know how Albert Einstein defined insanity?