Comrade Shampanyov, Last of the Red Hot Gentlemen wrote:
68 Pontiac wrote:
Interesting how people that are against the involvement in Iraq talk so high-brow and "in-the-know". I think we've traveled down this road once before. Was that not enough?
JHC
Nope.
Do you think it's possible that people who read *might* be be exposed to a broad perspective of what's going on there, and thus be able to form opinions on the basis of what they know? Do you think it might be possible that people who have been to the middle east *might* have been exposed to a limited perspective of what's going on there?
NOOLigan wrote:
i thought we still had free speech.
It's not about free speech or your insults towards me Comrade. I'm talking about the immediate attack on those that think differently. It's called respect of another's opinions, that is the only way free speech works. Just because my, and other's, opinions on Iraq are different does not make one ignorant.
The most interesting part is that you can not possibly fathom what is going on there without fully understanding the culture, which can not be done from a computer desk. Second, I have access and have read much of the same information/news that you have been exposed to. That you think the I've had blinders put on me by the government is so Orwellian. I've actually witnessed events, then seen the same event on the news totally misportrayed.
Either way I respect your opinion, and don't attack it everytime someone says something against it or against the current Commander in Cheif. I was in hopes those on the other side could do the same.
JHC