Out Against the War - Forum with Stephen Funk

I will be there. I am SO in love with this boy. :)

It took a lot more courage to refuse to go to war than to participate in the slaughter of the people of Iraq. He knew he would have to face the wrath of the U$ military (and mindless idiots like you) for committing the crime of thinking for himself.

You're just jealous of his youth and beauty, aren't you? Just admit it.

How can you respect someone who can't live up to his committment? Regardless of whether or not you support the war, he signed a contract. When the stuff hit the fan he did think for himself but only of himself. Sounds like a coward to me.

Our first committment is to justice. It supercedes all other committments. Had this man gone to war, he would have been a war criminal. At Nuremberg, Germans hung for doing to Poland what Americans just did to Iraq.

The US did the same thing to the Iraqis as the Germans did to Poland? You crack me up. We didn't invade Iraq to take over the country. Much the same as we didn't invade Germany in WWII to take over. Funny, the parts of Europe that the US controlled after the war became democracies and we pretty much left them alone. The the parts of Europe that Russia controlled after the war became russian controlled police states where people had no freedom. Infact they had to build a wall to keep people in their oppressive countries.

Stop comparing Bush to Hitler and the US to the Nazis, it' a lame argument and just shows your hate for America.

That's highly debatable. When every American soldier has been withdrawn, and Anglo-American corporations no longer suck on the neck of the Iraqi people, come back and say that again. Maybe then you will be believed.

What both America and Germany did was to invade on the flimsiest of (most agree frudulent) pretexts, countries that had done them no harm and were no real threat. This is, by definition, the waging of aggressive war. It is a crime.

You are drawing very very shallow comparisons. You might as well compare Gandhi and Osama bin Laden on the unshakable fact that both of them had millions of followers. It is simply incorrect to compare the invasion of Poland to the invasion of Iraq. There are literally hundreds of history books you can read that will clear this up for you.
It is important to learn from history, but you have to know what happened first if you want to get anything right.

>You might as well compare Gandhi and Osama bin Laden on the unshakable fact that both of them had millions of followers.


We are not comparing men, but wars. Hitler's invasion of Poland was a war of aggression. So is America's invasion of Iraq. When you invade a country that has not attacked you, that's aggression. America's invasion of Iraq is a war of aggression.