Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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If you're not with us, you're with Him

One is a megalomanic warmonger who is endangering world peace. He has his finger on the button of nuclear weapons and is infringing the civil rights of his people - most of whom didn't vote for him.
The other is Saddam Hussein

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With you guys

oddree

March 15 2003, 02:31:40 UTC 18 years ago

To be perfectly honest though, the whole "if you not with us you're against us" is something Bush has been saying all along. It really pisses me off too-- if you don't agree with us, you are our enemy. Surely that is as bad as radical Islamic fundamentalists that believe the same thing?
Key to this whole problem: apply it to life. I don't like taking sides and if I don't need to take sides I'd prefer not to. So if someone tries to make me take sides, chances are I'll take no-one's or I'll take the side of the person who respected me enough not to ask me to make that choice.

The Iraq issue can't be reduced to "you're either with us or against us" and George Bush is stupid for reducing it to that because people resent it and many would rather choose neutrality or the other side rather than agree with such a bully.

Or at least that's how I feel. I support neither dictator--but I have to say the way the American one is behaving is pissing me off more.

Sorry for the rant,
-oddree

Re: With you guys

zorac

March 15 2003, 02:53:50 UTC 18 years ago

No need to apologise, my post was fairly ranty itself ;-)

I think the thing I was really taking issue with is that the attitude has gone beyond If you're not with Us, you're against Us - which would allow you to be against both "Us" (the US) and "Him" (Saddam) - with the attitude shown on the front pages of at least two tabloids yesterday: If you're not with Us, you're with Him - leaving no room for a middle ground of any sort.

Of course, the really daft thing about the latter view is that that would make the Americans "With Hitler" for the early part of World War II...

Re: With you guys

oddree

March 15 2003, 07:52:30 UTC 18 years ago

Hmmm. I don't have any desire to be with George Bush at the moment, he gets on my nerves. Equally though, I don't want to be up against him either, that would be sick and pervy and I'm sure he has minging breath.

I'll settle for being with
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Hmmm. I don't have any desire to be with George Bush at the moment, he gets on my nerves. Equally though, I don't want to be up against him either, that would be sick and pervy and I'm sure he has minging breath.

I'll settle for being with <ljuser="queerasjohn">, though not in any untoward sense you understand.

Instead of starting up a whole new island, why don't you guys just come to the one John set up last week in his livejournal:
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=queerasjohn&itemid=174872


-oddree