A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

[taranaki]

Originally posted by Prelewd
I have to agree with Pick in that our country doesn't need this crap in time of war. You can sit there and disagree with the war all you want, but it's still happening, and is going to happen, so you might as well do what you can, and support our president as to make this bad thing end faster.

'this bad thing' as you call it should never have started.I totally disagree with the idea that you should keep quiet if you disagree with your government,that sounds too much like advice for Iraqis to me.One of the most powerful parts of the U.S. constitution is the right to free speech.If you disagree with something,you have a right to stand up and say so.If you disagree with something as immoral,opportunistic and evil as this war,it is your duty to stand up and be counted.If a few more Germans had stood up in the late 1930's and said,"Mr Hitler,what you are doing in our name is unacceptable",then just maybe we could have avoided World War Two.

[Jimster]

Originally posted by taranaki
If a few more Germans had stood up in the late 1930's and said,"Mr Hitler,what you are doing in our name is unacceptable",then just maybe we could have avoided World War Two.

He would have probably just had them silenced and then spread more shitty propoganda................Oh wait how is this different from Bush???

[Prelewd]

Originally posted by taranaki


'this bad thing' as you call it should never have started.I totally disagree with the idea that you should keep quiet if you disagree with your government,that sounds too much like advice for Iraqis to me.One of the most powerful parts of the U.S. constitution is the right to free speech.If you disagree with something,you have a right to stand up and say so.If you disagree with something as immoral,opportunistic and evil as this war,it is your duty to stand up and be counted.If a few more Germans had stood up in the late 1930's and said,"Mr Hitler,what you are doing in our name is unacceptable",then just maybe we could have avoided World War Two.

Thanks for twisting my words around, or misunderstanding them. What I meant to say was that it's a waste of time to protest the war. It's happening. I never said that you should keep quiet if you disagree with your government, so thank you for making that assumption. I said that in time of war, maybe you should try and help it end instead of bitching about it. If you have a broken pipe in your yard, sitting there and protesting the ground isn't going to dig the hole and patch the pipe. Pick up a shovel, or get out of the way so someone else can fix it because the pipe already has a hole in it and what caused it doesn't matter anymore.

You can sit there and say this war should have never started, fine, point your finger.. but what does that solve? Also, Mr. Taranaki, I'm sure that if our goverment was commiting genocide, it WOULD be overthrown. Thanks for comparing the US goverment to Nazi Germany.

And Jimster, the difference is that Bush aknowledges the right of free speech, no matter how wacko left or wacko right it might be.

[Dorikin]

It seems only the mostly the non-americans of AF dont understand the Bush argument for war...

Then again a number of Americans are against war...

[Pick]

Originally posted by taranaki


'this bad thing' as you call it should never have started.I totally disagree with the idea that you should keep quiet if you disagree with your government,that sounds too much like advice for Iraqis to me.One of the most powerful parts of the U.S. constitution is the right to free speech.If you disagree with something,you have a right to stand up and say so.If you disagree with something as immoral,opportunistic and evil as this war,it is your duty to stand up and be counted.If a few more Germans had stood up in the late 1930's and said,"Mr Hitler,what you are doing in our name is unacceptable",then just maybe we could have avoided World War Two.

The thing is just because you are using your right for free speech, that doesn't mean that you aren't being anti-American or Anti-Bush. Too many people think just because they have a right to free speech they can say whatever they want, and that what they are saying automatically qualifies them as pro-America.

You can call someone a queer to their face, but that doesn't mean they won't hit you in the face.