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'Just' war...
Donald Sensing, on just war...Christians are obligated to defend the innocent from aggression, not exempted from doing so. To fail to act when it is possible to do so is to become an accomplice to the next aggression. To restore justice - the right ordering of things - serves the cause of peace, even if justice is restored forcefully.Turn it how you will, that's what war with Iraq finally comes down to in the end. I couldn't have said it better myself, (though my beard is more distinguished looking than Rev. Sensing's). Iraq is a cog in the terror machine â it harbors the PLF and it harbored Abu Nidal until he became dangerous and Sammy had him bumped off. It sympathizes and collaborates with al-Qaeda, whether formally or informally, and gives safe haven to crazed killers of all stripes. It's got an involvement with Ansar al-Islam that seems to be more than just a passing acquaintance. Sammy's money goes to help fuel the never-ending slaughter in Paleostine, both through direct payments to the families of suicide bombers and through cash funneled to Yasser's structure of gangsters. The political ideology of the PLO, insofar as it exists, is modeled largely on Sammy's Ba'ath Party. Sammy and the Ba'ath have made such a hash of Iraq's politics as to justify war to remove them without any involvement with terror networks. With Iraq's oil, Iraqis should be as prosperous as Kuwaitis or the citizens of the UAE. Instead, even before the Gulf War, even before the Iran war, the money went to build a bloated military machine and gradiose monuments to Sammy, not into the pockets of the citizenry. The tales of torture and looting, the ethnic cleansing of Assyrians, Chaldeans, Kurds and others, are too frequent and too detailed â too well-documented â to ignore. The gassing of the Kurds is only a single example, but it's a brutally vivid example. Even after Powell's presentation today, apparently accepting the truth of evey statement he had, Sen. Kennedy and Rep. Pelosi still utter their resounding "No!" There's something wrong with those people. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-05 |
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