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Sax

10:53 / 11.04.06

If it was right and just to fight a war in Iraq because Saddam Hussein was a bad person and had done lots of bad things to his people, then on those grounds who should the enlightened Western nations with big guns be targeting next, and why?

Let your inner neocon run free.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:03 / 11.04.06

grow up

Daemon est Deus Inversus

11:04 / 11.04.06

Britain should declare war on France on the grounds that the Treaty of Amiens was signed under duress with an unlawful government; and should have been nullified by the Allied powers at Vienna when the rightful French government was rsetored.

Sax

11:05 / 11.04.06

I'm talking about killing people. What's more grown up than that?

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:07 / 11.04.06

i dunno maybe shitting yr nappy?

Sax

11:10 / 11.04.06

Okay, care to tell me exactly why you object to the thread so much that you have to post the message-board equivalent of monosyllabic teenage grunts rather than just ignoring the topic and/or putting together a coherent argument?

sleazenation

11:12 / 11.04.06

There is part of me that would love to see the end of Mugabe and I would really like to see what people would view would be the best way to chivvy him out of power...

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:15 / 11.04.06

OK, not entirely sure, how speculating about who should get battered next is particularly progressive for the board and to my mind is in poor taste.

But hey, carry on, i'll bail out.

Sax

11:19 / 11.04.06

And the tone of my opening post read to you as though I was fully behind any kind of military action against anybody, did it? Gosh.

Mourne Kransky

11:22 / 11.04.06

Go for Italy. We've had a War for Oil. Now we should expand that into a War for Oil and Vinegar.

It makes as much sense as the rest of British foreign policy since God told Tony that George Had A Plan. Allegedly.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:23 / 11.04.06

No, not at all. Put it in Switchboard if you want a genuine debate about it.

Sax

11:26 / 11.04.06

But I didn't want a genuine debate about it. I wanted people to suggest nations and governments that the US and Britain could conceivably target under the ground-rules already laid down by recent international conflicts. Almost a "what if..?" thread which, I think, would have been unsuitable for the Switchboard. Now, however, I'm coming around to your way of thinking and I really can't be arsed.

Jub

11:35 / 11.04.06

Maybe China. I mean if you're going to go for war, you may as well go for Global Thermonuclear War. Oh wait a minute I thought you said start a war because a regime was unjust and killing it's own citizens, not because it was in our best interests. Sorry. Iran.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:43 / 11.04.06

I would have thought China, according to the "rules", anyway. Human rights abuses? Check. Oppressive regime? Check. Oil? Yup. AND they're Commies. Remember Commies?

Or maybe Israel...

Sax

11:48 / 11.04.06

Any mileage in going for Burma?

Jub

11:50 / 11.04.06

doesn't Burma get loyalty points for being an old colony?

Spaniel

11:53 / 11.04.06

How about the USA? Unelected government? Check. Human rights abuses? Check. Oil? Check. Aggressive, militaristic, foreign policy? Check.

I know it could make things difficult what with Bush administration having to bomb themselves, but, from a practical point of view, at least they'll know with certainty where to bomb, so civilian casualties should be minimised.

_Boboss

12:03 / 11.04.06

hey, they just don't DO civilian body counts, okay? why would the penatagon do that pussy ass shit anyway?

Spaniel

12:06 / 11.04.06

Well, it'll help put a positive spin on the war internationally if those pesky body count obsessed NGOs aren't moaning on about civilian deaths.

Isadore

12:13 / 11.04.06

Rule #2 of Inter/Intranational Warfare: Figure out what you're going to replace the enemy with before you start dismantling it. So no bombing the US until somebody figures out what we do for a government afterwards, k? Thanks.

Since there's already a War on Terror, which is in typical Orwellian fashion only escalating the amount of terror in the world, let's declare a War on Intelligence. At least then (a) there's some honesty involved, and (b) there's really nothing to fight, at least as far as politics goes, and (c) considering previous examples of wars on concepts (again, terror), maybe somebody will learn something.

sleazenation

12:17 / 11.04.06

If we are having war against abstract concepts then we have got to go for the biggie - War Against God! We'll storm the gates of heaven!

Triplets

12:29 / 11.04.06

Ellis already killed God. With SCIENCE.

Mourne Kransky

13:08 / 11.04.06

The War Against Smugness would be worth fighting.

Or the War Against Richard E Grant. Just for fun.

...from the Bleed.

Damn you Xoc.

Ganesh

13:19 / 11.04.06

Selfawaria. Just to be sure no trace remains.

Jub

13:33 / 11.04.06

We could have a go a Peru. they look dangerously close to electing a president who might disagree with us on some important trade issues. Can't have the market disrupted you know.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:33 / 11.04.06

For too long has this location been a safe haven for our enemies.

As long as their weapons of mass destruction programs are active, we will never be safe.

They have refused to turn the Tooth Fairy over to us, so now, we must go to war!

electric monk

13:41 / 11.04.06

Mexico! We gotta stop those damn immigants! They're infecting our culture, etc. etc., [insert WorldNetDaily scare quote here].

Mistoffelees

13:58 / 11.04.06

They have refused to turn the Tooth Fairy over to us, so now, we must go to war!

No, not the moon, he´s so friendly (I read german is the only language where moon=male and sun=female)!

Elijah, don´t you know, that we like the moon?

The Falcon

14:15 / 11.04.06

I always used Burma as my stock response to any 'democracy/freedom/mister badman' pish, so I'll stick.

Spyder Todd 2008

15:30 / 11.04.06

So no bombing the US until somebody figures out what we do for a government afterwards, k? Thanks.

You know, if you're looking for an intelligent individual not afraid of compromise and willing to sell out their own government for personal power, well, I'm available. Think about it, Spyder, 1st Prime Minister of New America! Everyone wins: we get to over throw the American government AND I become supreme ruler!

sleazenation

15:37 / 11.04.06

You can say a lot about John Bolton, but at least he raised the issue of Burma at the UN...

girakittie

16:00 / 11.04.06

Well if we're going for countries that actually have WMD, why not India? Besides, they're taking all our jobs, anyway. I can't even call my cellular company about my phone bill without getting someone in India.

Triplets

17:09 / 11.04.06

Taking? Oh no, it's not companies making jobs in India it's those pesky ninjindians stealing our jobs. And womenfolk.

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