Why does nationality and religion blind people?
Between last night and today I have gotten more crazy than I am used to. The first batch was hearing "I don't think that Yassir Arafat was a terrorist." This was from an American-born Armenian, who claimed "My people were on that land before the Jews, and the Jews should leave."
Anyone who thinks Arafat is anything but evil must first justify to me strapping a bomb to a child in order to kill civilians.
The second was when I paid a visit to http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/ .
Someone registered under the name "Resistance Fighter" posted:
"They paid for Bush's sick plans and greedy aims...I am glad that the Iraqi resistance is killing and defeating those american forces, but I still think that they shouldn't be there, they shouldn't be in such a war, for a man called BUSHMAN. But I still hope Iraqi resistance wins, and it will do."
The resistance force is a combination of loyalists to Saddam and people from other countries who hate America (NOT BUSH, AMERICA and DEMOCRACY - which means YOU if you live here). It makes me sick to think anyone is glad that the forces of a leader that could easily be compared to Adolf Hitler is being avenged while the people in his own country are fighting the resistance.
The majority of the pictures on that website are of dead Iraqi National Guard. These are Iraqis who desperately want Democracy in their country for the first time in generations. These are among the people who celebrated when the Americans came and defeated Saddam.
So where is the genocide? Is it in the killing of the people who wish to deprive the nation of Iraq of the democracy that its people are willing to fight and die for? It is very arrogant to say that Iraq should remain in its current state and our soldiers should leave, while most people who say this live in the comfort of a developed, free country.
Anyone who thinks Arafat is anything but evil must first justify to me strapping a bomb to a child in order to kill civilians.
The second was when I paid a visit to http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/ .
Someone registered under the name "Resistance Fighter" posted:
"They paid for Bush's sick plans and greedy aims...I am glad that the Iraqi resistance is killing and defeating those american forces, but I still think that they shouldn't be there, they shouldn't be in such a war, for a man called BUSHMAN. But I still hope Iraqi resistance wins, and it will do."
The resistance force is a combination of loyalists to Saddam and people from other countries who hate America (NOT BUSH, AMERICA and DEMOCRACY - which means YOU if you live here). It makes me sick to think anyone is glad that the forces of a leader that could easily be compared to Adolf Hitler is being avenged while the people in his own country are fighting the resistance.
The majority of the pictures on that website are of dead Iraqi National Guard. These are Iraqis who desperately want Democracy in their country for the first time in generations. These are among the people who celebrated when the Americans came and defeated Saddam.
So where is the genocide? Is it in the killing of the people who wish to deprive the nation of Iraq of the democracy that its people are willing to fight and die for? It is very arrogant to say that Iraq should remain in its current state and our soldiers should leave, while most people who say this live in the comfort of a developed, free country.