BS: So many rogues in the nations

Subject: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: Peter Woodruff
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 08:30 PM

As the war in Iraq progresses we see how many rogues there are in the nations.

Peter Woodruff (AKA wdyat12, wdyat24)

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: Dead Horse
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 04:41 AM

Some of the nations are determined that one of this worlds biggest rogues is brought to book.
Whose side are YOU on?

Just a passing thought to add:-
I wonder how many innocent Iraqis would have died today, if the war hadn't started????

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: mooman
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 04:53 AM

Dead Horse,

I fear two wrongs don't necessarily make a right...

How many innocent African peasants would not have died of starvation had big business, the "cash crop" system and the manipulation of regimes by western powers not held the power of life or death over them, or had it used that power ethically.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: Dead Horse
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 02:35 PM

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But what the hell has that got to do with kicking Saddams arse?
You are thread creeping here.

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 05:13 PM

"Kicking Saddam's arse" - it'd be a great idea. But the metaphor actually serves to distance ourselves from what is going on.

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely." And that is the real worry - because who is it on this planet who has the nearest thing to absolute power?

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: mooman
Date: 21 Mar 03 - 06:03 PM

No thread creep...just a pertinent analogy


moo

Subject: RE: BS: So many rogues in the nations
From: Amos
Date: 22 Mar 03 - 02:41 PM

If power corrupts, and absoute power corrupts absolutely, what a wicked identitiy is God, no?

Not my coinage but gratefully borrowed from a one with a sharper eye than mine....

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