Salaam/peace;
--that's an interesting point 
In my country , when it's time to elect members of Parliament , we think like this ---who is less bad/corrupted ?
Mainly 2 political teams dominate our politics & really it's pathetic to decide who is comparitively less bad & then go & vote for him/her. Why we have to be so unfortunate ?
I heard that in Thailand , there is a NO vote system. If candidates are not good , people will say NO . If no vote is more than ..... i forgot ...say 45 % , then no one will be elected & parties have to nominate other candidates.
I found this system really good. Then it won't be possibe for political parties to force us to choose between bad & worse.
--well , Bush & Blair lied to the whole world . So , those who truested them can get benefits of doubts. But , now no one should support it anymore as Bush & Blair already proven as great liars.
My God ...... Blair's claim about 45 minitues WMD ......what a pathetic joke with the Iraqi people.
I read article of a western journalist . When he visited the website of FBI ( ?? ...those who capture international criminals & publish their photoes ) , he found that Laden's name is not mentioned there as a 9/11 criminal.
When he asked why , he was told that they don't have any proof .
--- i really did not understand these comparisons. Those who are murdered / are dyeing daily in Iraq ...they are helpless ...have no choices.
To stop the killing of unborn babies , many things can be done.
First tell the mothers ------- it's not ur right to kill ur baby . Just like u , they have a right to live in this world , too.
2. Urge doctors not to kill babies ....is not it against their professional ethics ? They are supposed to save lives , not kill.
3. Give free pills to women who don't want to be mom etc , etc, etc.
-- Iraqi people were not responsible for 9/11......American sources/agencies have admitted it long ago.
I can understand , Christians don't believe in turn another cheek teaching of Jesus (p) but surely U can't attack a country with this fear that in future , may be one day , some adults will attack u.
If mothers are killing their babies , u can ask for strict laws or u urge them on religious grounds. Most Americans are Christians . So , teach them about their holy book......pre-sex marriage , kill babies ......surely these are not teaching of their Lord Jesus (p).
But , to select a candidate because he will save unborn US babies but will surely kill thousands ( if not millions ) babies & adults outside America......i m shocked .....now it's the criteria to elect US President ????
I will be happy if u tell me that i did not understand ur post correctly.
You did understand it, at least in part, but I don't think you understood the realities of our government.
This is going to take awhile and might even seem off point, but I will get back to the point if you stay with me.
1st, Americans cannot stop the killing of babies. Right now, the way the law is interpreted, it is considered legal. Further, many many people in the USA think it is justifiable. They don't even recognize babies as human beings until after they are born so they have no legal protections until then. However, not everyone thinks this way or thinks this is right. But just writing a new law won't fix the problem, because laws have been written and the laws themselves have been declared unconstitutional (or illegal laws) by our court system. And the people who are in the positions in the court to make these decisions are not voted on by the people and cannot ever be voted out of office or replaced by anyone, unless they voluntarily retire or die. And when this happens, which isn't often, the person who selects the new judges to replace them is the president. So, yes, many people consider what type of judges the president would choose to serve on our supreme court when voting for president.
2nd, you may not recognize just how horrific this massacre of the innocents is in the USA. 3542 babies are aborted every day, over 1.2 million babies are aborted every year. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of likewise innocent people in Iraq is terrible. But the choice in our system is like yours, between bad and worse. But there has not been a day in the history of the Iraq War when more people died in Iraq than in the USA's abortion parlors. In 2004 I had to choose between a President who seeks to stop the murder of babies in the USA but thinks he is justified in waging war in Iraq, and another person who wants to make abortion even easier than it already is and was also willing to wage war in Iraq.
I appreciate your suggestions on how to try to stop abortions in the USA. By the means you suggested we have been able to see a decrease of about 300,000 abortions a year from it high. That is good news. But not good enough. Bush was our best chance in recent years to slow this down some more.
I don't see it as a trade-off between US and Iraq. The best I can see it as is the lessor of two evils. And believe it or not, the war in Iraq is the lesser of those two evils. That is just how horrible what is going on here really is. You may value the life of an American baby differently than that of an Iraqi family. I don't. I think the death of either is inexcusable. I don't know how to stop both, so I try to figure out how to stop the most total deaths. As I said, I am choosing the lesser of two evils, and right now 700,000 Iraqi deaths in 4 years is less than 1.2 million American babies in 1 year. So, I pinched my nose over the stink of it, and voted for Bush.
If you can come up with a better solution for me than that, please let me know. Because I might be faced with a similar choice in 2008. Even if it isn't Bush, the issues could be the same once again.
/Peace To All
