The Word B

excuse me. i just read this email that was forwarded to me, it was nothing but propoganda. the email was creating an analogy for the war in iraq, and justifying american invovlement in the middle east. the analogy was that the world was a neighborhood, and each house a country, with you standing at your window watching a man brutally beat and kill his wife and kids. no one responds. this continues, so what do you do? then you watch another neighbor do the same, and this keeps happening until they are at your front door. what do you do? the statement made in this particular email, was thank god the united states is acting to defeat tyranny. maybe so. but i think this whole world situation and this outlook (through the email) is totally off base, and not taking into consideration historical events of the past. the united states government, helped put saddam hussein into power. the united states government gave him all those weapons of mass destruction. how do you think iraq came about having all those chemical weapons? ask the kurdish people and the iranian people how they feel about that. if you want to make saddam hussein look like a bad guy, that is fine, but you must also consider the person(s) who made him into what he is. are they bad guys too? who trained saddam to be a killer? who provided him with the means? who looked the other way for many years while this all went on? who is paying the price now? who is getting away with it, without any of the blame? who is the real tyrant? who is still making money from this war? it all boils down to one thing. oil. oil equals money, and money equals power.
no, it is not right for anyone to be beating and killing people. nor is it right to allow this to go on. but it is absolutely wrong to promote this behavior when it suits your purpose, to only turn around and condemn it when it no longer is in your benefit.