sjhipple
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"But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands," she said. "The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken." -- Condi Rice, secretary of state
There are so many things to say about this - so many comments on the disasterous effects of our belligerent foreign policy, the asenine idea that we're spreading freedom, the hoodwinking of gun owners by neocons like McCain and Bush into thinking they're our friends - that I can't say anything for fear my ranting would go on for pages and pages. Or how about the fact that if we're doing this to an occupied country, what does it say about Americans that want to bring such a policy here? And that's not to mention the striking resemblance to the famous quote by Heinrich Himmler...
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
From your cold dead hands you say? Well, to a neocon, that makes you a terrorist. Just ask the Iraqis.
If you were an Iraqi, what would you do? As an American, knowing that even the "conservatives" of this country think this way, what are you going to do?
"But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands," she said. "The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken." -- Condi Rice, secretary of state
There are so many things to say about this - so many comments on the disasterous effects of our belligerent foreign policy, the asenine idea that we're spreading freedom, the hoodwinking of gun owners by neocons like McCain and Bush into thinking they're our friends - that I can't say anything for fear my ranting would go on for pages and pages. Or how about the fact that if we're doing this to an occupied country, what does it say about Americans that want to bring such a policy here? And that's not to mention the striking resemblance to the famous quote by Heinrich Himmler...
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
From your cold dead hands you say? Well, to a neocon, that makes you a terrorist. Just ask the Iraqis.
If you were an Iraqi, what would you do? As an American, knowing that even the "conservatives" of this country think this way, what are you going to do?