Reply #18: yikes ...

[welshTerrier2]

i disagree with most of what you said ...

first of all, i don't agree that single issue voters are idiots ... if you see the abuse of American power around the world as the greatest evil, it seems perfectly reasonable to make that your overriding issue ... if you believe American foreign policy is being conducted to cater to corporate interests while innocent lives are taken, how could you ever support a candidate who endorses such madness? you can disagree with the conclusions made by voters who think like this, but to call them idiots is absurd ...

next, you say you're a hardline leftist who supported the war ... you cited your belief that no one should have to live in fear ... do you think there might just be a few Iraqis living in fear of the U.S. ?? to believe this war is just under these circumstances, you had to believe the "big lie" that we were "liberating" the Iraqi people ... all we've done in Iraq is remove one tyrant from power while destroying the health, the infrastructure and the society in Iraq ...

the U.S. goals were never noble in Iraq ... it was always about global power, oil, a foothold in the Middle East ... we are not the world's policeman ... we belong, or should belong, to a community of nations ... we have violated the long-held international standard for war: imminent threat ... to argue that what we're doing in Iraq is a humanitarian effort defies logic ...