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wPuri sermonis amator |
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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wFriday, March 28, 2003 |
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A few little things:
The counter is there because civilian deaths matter. And since I can't trust the mainstream media to give me accurate information, I'm going to have to go with those guys. Now, Andy, if you'd bothered to go to the site you'd see that they have a very rigorous method for determining that number - the min/max numbers are there when reliable sources disagree. I don't really see how you can be upset by the simple dissemination of information.
The U.N. matters on this war because it's a war of choice. If we were acting in self-defense, we wouldn't need U.N. authorization. Check out the U.N. charter sometime - any country is allowed to go to war in cases of self-defence or preemptive war in case of an immediate threat. Iraq is neither. In other news, the Constitution gives the Senate the right to enter us into legally binding treaties, the U.N. Charter is one such treaty - so we're violating the Constitution as well.
What's with you "borderline socialist" pansies? I'm surrounded by right-wingers.
I actually quite liked the protesting article Weston linked to down below. It's what I've been saying for a while - protest is a vital part of a vibrant democracy, not some hippie ego-fest.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 12:23 PM
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