If I can understand why LIBERALS hate WAR.....????

Question

.....how come they don't understand why we hate ABORTION ????

Aren't they both about the same thing - the murder of innocent lives to an unjust cause?

And isn't whether or not the cause is "just" or "unjust" simply in the eye of the beholder?

Answer 1

I understand your comparison, but it is different. The simple fact is the war is about fundelmentalism Islam whose goal as stated by them many times, is to make the U.S. a Muslim nation and destroy Isreal. It amazes the number of people who have not head these threats from Iran and Bin Laden. The main idea Bush had is to make a democracy out of Iraq would in fact help motivate the people if Iran already disgusted with their government. Democracies don't usually blow thing up, and to have the first democracy in the middle east would go a long way to solve the terrorist poblem. Afghanistan is a good example. Now in its third year, the people themselves are turning in Taliban and Alqueda, they don't want to go back to the days of oppression. Bush is right, and history will jprove him correct. Introducing freedom in the middle is the only ong term answer. For those who wanted to leave Iraq and sadaam along, have a short memory or are to young to know the history. How he tried to kill Clinton and Bush Sr. how he killed 300,000 Kurds, mass graves have been found all over Iraq. It's a shame people have no sense of history and learn from it

Answer 2

Both abortion and war exist because people making the decision see them as the lesser of two evils. Because of the nature of war it is politicians making the decision on war. The argument over abortion is about who should have the power to decide. If you give the decision to the government, then power to forbid a woman from having an abortion, is also the power to force a woman to have one.

edit: Pro life advocates assume that if the government has the power, their views will triumph. But their a many people probably a majority who think that women on welfare should not be permitted to have more children, or that babies with birth defects should be aborted. In China over population was such a problem that second children were aborted by government order. Abortion opponents should also acknowledge that without a police state the government cannot prevent abortions,. Laws prohibiting abortion will just make it more expensive or more dangerous or both.

Answer 3

We have two seperate issues here. Nobody likes war, and the 'liberal' strawman has only the 'beliefs' that the right wing propaganda artists give it. I just wonder if the person who posted this question has ever though what it would be like if abortion wasn't an option. If abortion was considered 'murder', then all abortions would illegal. If that was the case not many of us would have a mother, sister, aunt, wife, girlfriend or neighbor lady who wouldn't land up being tried for murder. Tens of thousands of 'O.J' type trials every year would be the natural outcome of declaring abortion to be murder. As 'murder' has no stature of limitations that means that your wife, mother of your children, 20 years after she had an illegal abortion could be brought up on charges. Given the number of illegal abortions that would result from a ban on legal abortions women would be snatched from their homes decades after the fact to tried, convicted and imprisoned or executed. Some America that would be. Then there's the issue of a major population boom, composed mainly of poor people with no social safety net to protect these 'innocent lives', not to mention infanticide, abandoned babies, dead women found bled out in empty lots and all the rest of the sorry spectacle that existed before Roe/Wade. When the 'right to life' movement addresses these problems maybe there can be a real discussion....all I know is that I don't want any women in my life being accused of murder and I'll bet a dollar to a donut that even a 'right to life' supporter wouldn't either.

Answer 4

Are you suggesting that evryone who isn't a liberal is a psychopath? I know that some people are and that they LOVE war but I can't see anyone in his right mind admitting to it!!
I am dead against this war. I am against abortion. I am against the death penalty. I am against causing death and harm to human beings as a means of achieving anything. Only self defense of LIFE,not life style, can justify(in my mind) the willful,deliberate taking of a humanbeing's life.Whatever GOD is and if there is one, I know that it is not ourselves so I don't want to assume God's power.

Answer 5

Was is an action BY the US government, using OUR money and OUR fellow citizens. Thus we have a direct interest in it.

Abortion is a medical procedure sought by private citizens having to do with their own bodies. We may hate it but the government has no business being involved with it.

Answer 6

I don't agree that the cause in Iraq or Afghanistan is unjust. So you've failed to make your point with this conservative.

Answer 7

What a bizzare comparasin.
I would hope that everybody hates war. It's the most destructive thing that human beings do. Nothing good about it.
Been there, done that.

Answer 8

I gladly supported the effort to get Osama, so I don't know what you are talking about.

I don't see how anyone can be pro Iraq War.

It's made the America worse.
It's made Iraq worse.
It's made the region worse.
It's helped terrorists.
And no, it wasn't a "just" war.

Answer 9

Right on.They are the same people that sniveled,moaned,stomped and whined when Vicks got caught hanging dogs,but will protest a child killer being sent to the gas chamber.They are hypocrites.

Answer 10

how is bush and cheney using every defferment to get out of war in vietnam and bush going awol different from liberals????? if we must go to war it has to be a JUST war not based on the crapload your christian president fed us.