<div>Is there a bike forum somewhere around here....?</div> <div> </div> <div>- Jon<BR><BR><B><I>Anarchist Judaism <atheistrabbi@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ok, I was a little harsh, but Turtle's comment really upset me.<BR>I was in Iraq for the first year of the war, so I've seen the situation <BR>regress from relatively stable (or as stable as it can be after Bush the <BR>elder's war, Clinton's bombing, and over a decade of economic sanctions) to <BR>a complete and utter hellhole. The situation in Iraq, from my (purely <BR>subjective) perspective, is that most of the people just want to live their <BR>lives without fear, hunger, deprivation, etc. A number of paramilitary <BR>groups, running the gamut from reactionary Islamist to authoritarian <BR>communist to anti-authoritarian autonomist, are waging guerilla warfare <BR>against the occupation forces
and against each other. The U.S. military - <BR>assisted by the Iraqi police forces, independent "security" and "defense" <BR>contractors, and the puppet government's army - is conducting a program of <BR>systematic repression and genocide against the local populace. And of <BR>course, corporations such as Halliburton and Bechtel have personnel out <BR>there trying to make as much profit as they can.<BR>The situation is not, as Turtle suggests, one of all-out violence. It is not <BR>a free-for-all where anything goes. There does exist, unfortunately, law and <BR>order and other such fascist nonsense.<BR>The solution, in my opinion, is so fucking simple and common-sensical that <BR>it boggles the mind as to why others have not thought of it. All it takes is <BR>for everyone to shut the fuck up and go home. The people doing the fighting <BR>are always going to end up on the losing end, the only ones who stand to <BR>gain from the senseless violence are the so-called
"leaders" of the various <BR>factions. I'm not anti-war, I just think that war is the stupidest idea that <BR>anyone has ever come up with.<BR><BR>With best wishes for PL&A,<BR>-Sholom<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! <BR>http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Boston Critical Mass mailing list<BR>list@bostoncriticalmass.org<BR>http://bostoncriticalmass.org/list<BR>To unsubscribe email list-unsubscribe@bostoncriticalmass.org<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com