On 30 Aug 2002 at 2:49, kharin wrote:
>
> Joe, if you really are tired of this you could always stop raising the
> issue in this obsessive manner. I really don't have an axe to grind
> over Iraq one way or another*, but the usual procedure at this point
> would be for you and other participants to agree to disagree rather
> than continually raising the debate like a dog gnawing a bone and then
> blaming people for failing to agree with you.
>
> I'm sorry to be somewhat sharp over this, but if people have not come
> over to your point of view now they are clearly not going to, no
> matter how much time is devoted to stamping one's feet. In which case,
> I would submit that this entire debate is best put out of its misery
> now.
>
> * I would hope that my position is one of honest doubt - see:
> http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/david_aaronovitch
> /story.jsp?story=328687
>
> "This Iraq argument now resembles a dark forest in which huge grunting
> animals crash about – never engaging, but trampling on anything that's
> in their way. Both sides make the rest of us, with our scruples, look
> puny. But we're right."
>
As long as people keep bitching, moaning and complaining about the
US preparing to do the right and only thing vis-a-vis Saddam, I will
continue to point out that their smug, self-righteous and complacent
asses are being saved by it.
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