Posted on 05/01/2003 11:06:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It's one thing to debate someone on ideals or philosophy, and another to be manipulated by someone who is just lobbing bottles full of rhetorical gas-hardly worth the effort.
And how! Sometimes I feel like a nut. Sometimes I don't.
That is a lie. Her final post, which was avidly misrepresented by her detractors, pointed out how the Bush Administration's contempt for long-standing international agreements leaves us without recourse to international laws, such as those enshrined in the Geneva Convention, when our guys are prisoners of war. Or did you already know that?
Is it? Where are the lies?
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Yikes. :-)
SO, USMC Lance Corporal Gino Marelli, 22 year old "Ayyy Tony did I tell youz McNabb is a woman" guy from Philly squares off against Sgt. Hamid Mohamed of the Special Republican Guard.
I think Corporal Marelli is there, with his life on the line, to ensure we Americans are safer, Iraqis are safer and the world is safer. I want Marelli to prevail. That means killing Mohamed.
Now if you say Marelli is weilding violence illegally and illigitimately, he's a mercinary supporting some American corporate oil oligarchy, he's a tyrant and he's a killer ... well, Hamid is the good guy to you.
No feeking way. It's not a Rubik's Cube ... Walker lives or Mohamed lives. I say Walker. In an honorable duty and righteous skill.
Some of you folks need to send a search party up your ass, find your head, and retool the whole shabang.
What an ironic thing to say on post #666, Stan.
This is a false dilemma. I do not think the US government had just cause or just intention in fighting the recent war, but that doesn't mean I believe the Iraqi regime to have just authority to wage a defensive war. I support Marelli staying home.
Geneva Convention. Pshaw. I forgot Saddam Hussein was awarded 9 straight Lady Bing trophies for gentlemanly play.
I support rainbows, cotton candy and butterflies, but Marelli's going to shoot Mohamed dead, or Mohamed is going to shoot Gino cold.
You want Hamid, he's defending his land. Marelli is the trespasser in your view.
Have a groin package. It's our annoyingly Jim Thome loving "paesan" or it's the Kurd killing favored protector of Kusay. Who is legal, who needs to live?
I'm clear on that issue. Askel was clear. Sayonara.
Daughter: Father, that man's bad!
More: There's no law against that!
Roper: There is, God's law!
More: Then God can arrest him!
Wife: While you talk he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?
This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
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