Why are the peacemongers always butting their nose where it doesn't belong?

Question

Suppose for a moment you are having a War, one that you have been planning and looking forward to for a long time. You enemies are dying and friendly losses are minimal, and you even killed the enemy leader.

Now all of a sudden scruffy, know-nothing Joe Peacenick comes along and says "Stop, stop! Violence never solves anything!"

Doesn't that sort of unwelcome interference just chap your hide?

ash: yes 3100 is "minimal losses" hate to break it to you. compare that to WWII with 500,000 deaths - fool!

Answer 1

The easy answer is that they just don't get it. For instance:

No strategic importance? Only a country that is floating on top of the world's second largest supply of oil. I suppose some idiots would much rather that it be controlled by the Iranians. That would lst right up until the time that they had to pay $10 a gallon for gasoline. And I'm not buying that biofuel thing either. Just how much of that do they suppose we could produce without major, major changes to the infrastructure of this Country.

Over 3,000 dead? Like everyone else, I hate the idea of a single American loss of life but, lets get real here. There were over 4,000 military casualties under Clinton, and we were not conducting combat operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. I think that pulling out before that job is finished diminishes their sacrifices .

Violence never solves anything? Who came up with that gem? Violence forced the bad guys to the table every time it was used. Sometimes it was just the threat of violence like when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Earl Carter. The Iranians knew that things would be a whole lot different and they caved. The Iranians know that violence is an empty threat right now or they would have never kidnapped the British sailors when they did, with a British Destroyer sitting right there and helicopters circling. It's absurd that the Captain of that Destroyer had to wait for permission before he could come to their rescue.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US? ARE WE SO AFRAID OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT WE'RE GOING TO ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE BULLIED BY A 3rd RATE COUNTRY LIKE IRAN? I read in this morning's paper that the Iranians who were captured two months ago in Iraq were released. What a sad joke. Perhaps one of them should have been publically beheaded and the Iranians warned that, should the British sailors not be released, the rest would get the same treatment.

Answer 2

Dear Stupid M
Your right, how can a Revolutionary Warrior like yourself advance mankind without an enjoyable war or two.
Your experience in the freedom struggle has shown you the necessity for collateral damage when the higher ideas of the revolution are to be achieved, its the price that has to be paid.Youve been on the front line against the imperialist pigs and your brothers salute you.
Your mom says dont be late for supper after you have finished your ballet lesson because your new cross stitch pattern has arrived in the post!

Answer 3

Check Stupid Marxist's record for evidence of him being pummelled from botty to breakfast by the far more intelligent left-wingers on this board. Counting bodies again, eh Richard? Now isn't that how you lost the last war you were always winning? And of course, as long as none of those 3000 (and counting...) is YOU, who cares? Ah, and let's roll out the 'if only we fight them hard enough, they'll learn'n'r'spekt us'. That's just what the Japanese thought when they attacked you in 1941. And although Americans think they're special and have God-sanctioned virtues denied the rest of the human race (er, the Jews beat you to that one), in fact any country attacked for malevolent reasons tends to stay pissed off and fighting you for as long as it takes. And, being the local population, the Iraqis will be fighting you for AS LONG AS IT TAKES. And that will be a lot less long than it would have been, because Bush lied. He knew if he put forward the real reasons and evidence, the US public would have been like everyone else in the world- not buying it. Now you expect those who were right all along to shut up and let you dumb-*** conservatives lead the way... on what record... oh, your record for believing fairy stories and incompetence in planning wars. Apparently even wars you've been 'planning for a long time' don't include any planning for the post-occcupation phase. Guess that military genius Rumsfeld used up all his time planning how to take out Saddam's three rusty tanks and half-dozen boy scouts.

Answer 4

This has been happening since the 60's where everybody was a hippie.

Now, everybody is just "wannabe hippies" or shall we say, liberals and environmentalists.

It doesn't really bug me with these peace people. But in America, soldiers had to fight for their freedom to keep America free. I'm ambivalent to the whole thing.

Answer 5

Don't ask me, ask the parents of those 3100-plus "minimal losses" here in the US. Even if this is sarcastic, you exhibit pretty poor taste.

EDIT: This preemptive war based on bad information does not even come close to comparable to World War II. And did you really say that someone had been "planning and looking forward to" this war "for a long time"? If as you say I am a fool, then the world needs a lot more fools like me. So sorry if the people who run the country - the 60% who want us out of Iraq - are putting a crimp in your plans for the day. Remember government of, by, and for the people?

Answer 6

Why worry about friendly losses?The more the merrier -righto ?
It is a sad day in America when you can't even enjoy a pleasant little war from the privacy of your own trailer.
What next Pelosi? You gonna shut down the Pabst Blue Ribbon plants and make half the nation starve???

Answer 7

Hippies don't impose their will on others. We are against violence from warmongers, thats different. As a taxpayer I am supporting a war I believe is immoral and illegal.

Answer 8

The protests were occurring BEFORE the war began.

Answer 9

why do warmongers always ask such ridiculous blind sided questions? what the f*ck. Grow a pair, admit you were wrong.

By the way, friendly losses should be 0 because the war was wrong in the first place as*hole.

Answer 10

their mission in life is to disrupt! they think its cool. the casuality figures are very low compiared to Nam, WWII or anyother war weve been in