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ANTI-WAR PETITION
 

offline manicminer from Paris (France) on 2002-08-14 22:04 [#00349522]
Points: 1423 Status: Lurker



Go here to sign it:

http://www.petitiononline.com/cndstwc/petition.html


 

offline uzim on 2002-08-14 22:08 [#00349525]
Points: 17716 Status: Lurker



like they'd care at all about an internet petition... -_-


 

offline manicminer from Paris (France) on 2002-08-14 22:16 [#00349536]
Points: 1423 Status: Lurker



Surely it's worth a go though? It only takes a minute.

Massive Attack support this petition (see nme.com)


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 22:24 [#00349544]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



oh dear.........

As much as we would like to THINK that goverments care about
this kind of thing...... fact of the matter is..... they
don't. And would probubly go to war with iraq even if god
himself came down from above and said dont go to war. Its
nice that people out there in the world hate war as much as
I do...... but this petition isnt going to make a damn bit
of difference. And in all honesty.... Sudam Hussan (sorry
for the typos) is not that great of a man... or leader for
that matter.... but that doesnt mean its right to start a
war and have the possibility of perhaps thousands civilian
casualties.


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-08-14 22:29 [#00349554]
Points: 1463 Status: Lurker



I signed it.

Don't let them put you off Manic ;)

MickeyMouse... I know what u mean but never accept the games
up, or you may become part of the problem & not the
solution. I'm not preaching, I feel the same way quite often


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2002-08-14 22:31 [#00349555]
Points: 50073 Status: Moderator



me too

its up to 811 now

how much would it take to be noticed at all?


 

offline manicminer from Paris (France) on 2002-08-14 22:34 [#00349560]
Points: 1423 Status: Lurker



Of course the whole thing probably IS futile. But that's
what they want us to believe. By sitting back and accepting
these things we become part of the problem, as Smokehammer
said.


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-08-14 22:37 [#00349562]
Points: 7669 Status: Regular



War is good it eliminates idiot squaddies who feel the need
to flex their muscles when they get leave.


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-08-14 22:41 [#00349565]
Points: 1463 Status: Lurker



It eliminated 4 too few in Texas apparently :(


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 22:46 [#00349568]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



Well...... I think of it like this....
you have a war hungry capitolist president with extreme
power right now..... trying to finish something his daddy
didnt a long time ago. Dropping everything else and focusing
on this with all his man power. There is a global
announcement a while back after 9/11 that went ..."I greatly
appriciate great britans supports as well as many other
nations for there support on this war on terror.... any
nations harbering terrorists or ignores this warning...."
and basically says any countries agianst this will suffer
reprocutions. So a massive world power is stating this....
its us or them attitude... and behind it all is a president
foaming at the mouth with this possible political victory...
not only that... but a good hefty percentage of the natural
resources that come from iraq in the future.... one major
resource.... oil. Its a stated fact that oil supply is
finite in the world and that prices are going to jack up to
astronomical prices in the future.... I am sure bush and
cheney dont want their oil stocks dwindling.....And you
think that agianst all of this...... a little online
petition is going to make a difference..... its not that I
dont support public opinion/outcry... I am all for the elf
winning agianst the giant... I signed it.... I find it a
little hard to believe that agianst all this... it will make
any kind of difference.... I am sure the United States
allready has covert special forces in the area giving
intellegence reports...... and are allready planning for
attack.....


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-08-14 22:46 [#00349569]
Points: 2670 Status: Lurker



Resistance is futile, Bush doesn't need permission because
he has the most advanced army. It doesn't matter if Tony
Blair joins the war or not, he only wants to "score points"
with Bush, he might as well do that since it is of no
consequence at all. The millitary power in the world is out
of balance and that is the real problem IMO

:(


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 22:49 [#00349573]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



and you are trying to tell me that I am a part of the
problem.........

hehe......


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-08-14 22:49 [#00349574]
Points: 27790 Status: Regular



i'd sign it if it said, "don't attack iraq, send the fucking
army into zimbabwe and kick mugabe's ass"


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 22:50 [#00349577]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



no shit laserbeak...... its WAY WAY WAY out of
balance....... question is... if other countries had the
same millitary power..... how would THEY handle it


 

offline Jedi Chris on 2002-08-14 22:52 [#00349580]
Points: 11496 Status: Lurker



I'm sorry, I couldn't sign this.....I personally think we
should attack Iraq!


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-08-14 22:53 [#00349584]
Points: 2670 Status: Lurker | Followup to Mickey Mouse: #00349577



We'd all keep missiles targetted at eachother but no one
would dare to fire because it would destroy the world


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-08-14 22:55 [#00349585]
Points: 1463 Status: Lurker



MickeyMouse> damn straight bro'... they were planning a war
with the Taliban for months before 911 gave them a
convenient excuse to open up the opium trade and build their
UNESCO oil pipeline with puppet Karzai's approval

Laserbeak> Right, Bush doesn't need anyones consent or
help.. He couldn't give a shit if anyone else is on board,
he'll do it anyway. Its depressing how much more insular the
US has become since 911, now 94% of them are singing from
Bush's hymn-sheet... It is all going so according to plan
for him.
Blair & all British politicians have no respect in Europe
for their toadying to America. I think Blair should join the
rest of Europe in saying "Fuck this , enough is enough"...
It would make me feel better, if nothing else. But he won't,
sycophantic slag that he is


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-08-14 22:56 [#00349587]
Points: 7669 Status: Regular



Support the war!!!

Dead young men, Yay.


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 23:01 [#00349591]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



I have a much more interesting theory...... nato pacts and
other various treaties will arrange it so we CANT attack
certain people. A definate power struggle would come into
play.... somebody down the line would propose a global
goverment. Countries would attack and redraw their
boarders..... inevitably creating this massive series of
battles. Sooner then you would think it would come down to
two powers.... and one would have to be the loser. A world
wide goverment would be proposed and accepted by the
dictating country who reigned the world. At least..... that
is what I think..... and so do a lot of other consperacy
theorists.


 

offline Mickey Mouse from The Moon on 2002-08-14 23:04 [#00349594]
Points: 4130 Status: Addict



smoke hammer.... its good to know other people know about
HUGE drug problem infecting/corrupting america with evil and
greed...

laserbeak..... your theory is perceavable.... but of course
you think much more highly of mankind then I do....


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-08-14 23:07 [#00349598]
Points: 27790 Status: Regular



sod iraq, lets get our priorities right. it's not an
immediate threat, and that mugabe fucker really gets on my
tits.


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-08-14 23:17 [#00349606]
Points: 1463 Status: Lurker



mugabe is a classic example of British double-standards &
media propaganda campaign

We supported him for a long time , and now he is taking land
off whites "with axes & spears" (BBC commentary) ....whites
incidentally who took it initially from the natives with
guns ; We paint him as a complete despoting asshole who rigs
elections. Well Bush does that too, so lets put Zimbabwe on
the back-burner too, and bomb America . heh.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-08-14 23:24 [#00349613]
Points: 27790 Status: Regular | Followup to smokehammer: #00349606



no need, they'll probably end up blowing themselves up :)


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2002-08-14 23:34 [#00349622]
Points: 8876 Status: Lurker



Sometimes it feels like USA is trying to catch up to all
the war that the rest of the world been doing for thousands
of years , like a new born baby.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-08-14 23:50 [#00349636]
Points: 27790 Status: Regular



bush just wants to make his mark in history, unfortunately
that means us shitting our pants for the next 4 years :o/


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-08-14 23:53 [#00349639]
Points: 8472 Status: Regular



..cold war numero2?...


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 02:00 [#00349808]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular



1) why WOULDN'T i want to get rid of saddam husein?!?

2) you all know that this petition is useless


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-08-15 02:14 [#00349817]
Points: 8984 Status: Lurker



i'm a bit worried about the probability of attack too =(

that's the problem w/ dynasties


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 02:17 [#00349820]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular



quite frankly i like george w. bush more than saddam.

dont get me wrong, i hate george.... hes a moron and i
dissagree w/ him politically...

...but i trust him w/ weapons of mass destruction more than
i trust saddam, thats all


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2002-08-15 02:20 [#00349824]
Points: 10965 Status: Regular



don't be to quick to try and ban war.
war is a necessary part of the growth of technology.
also if we didn't have any bombs to scare away the baddies,
our countries would have been invaded long ago. Look at the
Native american Indians for example. an entire race of
people almost totally eradicated because they were peaceful
and defenseless.

besides, i doubt if any of the 2nd and 3rd world countries
who have been duking it out for ages are even able to get on
the internet; let alone read an e-petition against the only
thing many of these people have ever known.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-08-15 02:21 [#00349826]
Points: 8984 Status: Lurker



hopefully within the near future weapons of mass destruction
would be banned completely.

i wouldn't want mr hussein pullin any crazy shit like that,
but bush needs to calm his azz down also. i don't find his
policies rational.


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 02:22 [#00349827]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular | Followup to evolume: #00349824



'peaceful'....... hmm..... not particularly..

'defenseless', yes

it was just a matter of military technology


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 02:27 [#00349831]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular



+don't be to quick to try and ban war.
war is a necessary part of the growth of technology.
also if we didn't have any bombs to scare away the baddies,

our countries would have been invaded long ago. Look at the

Native american Indians for example. an entire race of
people almost totally eradicated because they were peaceful

and defenseless.+

that's just what the corporate industrial machinary want you
to believe..keep it up and they will soon be sending you the
perfect consumer badge with the sports car of your choice
with a leggy blonde sillicone model carrying an M16 on your
way..
frightening rhetoric like this is at the root of all evil
inflicted in the name of progress, just because it has been
going on for centuries doesnt make it right......

btw I have signed the petition as well


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 02:35 [#00349836]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to AMinal: #00349808



1) Can you guarante that they will get rid of him..as
successfully as they did Bin Laden?..no wait they didnt get
get rid of Bin Laden..or Saddam before him in the decade
they have been pouring misery over the Iraqis from the
sky..those that arent killed in the bombing raids are killed
due to sanctions..

the way sanctions have gone pretty sure there wont be
another generation of Iraqis..with all the children dying
for the want of basic necessities of life..do you know that
UN doesnt even allow pain killers or medicines into the
country because they think it will be used for the
production of chemical weapons?..

this IS Genocide..the slow and excruciating way..


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 02:44 [#00349839]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular



i hate war, im not brainwashed by corporate media
im really not!

but do u really think u'll see the end of war in ur
lifetime?
do u think ANY person will EVER see the end of war?

i think humans will, some day.... but not today
we're not even close right now

i just think it would be pretty naive, and hopeless, to try
to end all war in one giant step

there are 6 billion people on earth you have to convince to
be peaceful and loving, and im sorry, but u really cant do
that all at once
especially given the conditions and enviroment (cultural and
political) most humans live in and have grown up in

and btw flea:

"that's just what the corporate industrial machinary want
you to believe.."

well, unless history is a complete fabrication of coporate
propoganda...
better armed, more technologically advanced peoples DO tend
to take over and exploit more poorly armed and less
technologically advanced people

its sad, very sad, but true

mass dis-armnent and lovin will only work if EVERYBODY does
it all at once
if only one country (for example) did it.. there woudl be no
shortage of evil violent people wanting to take advantage of
that.

people are stpupid, violent animals
FOR NOW
all im saying is stop fooling urself:
thats not about to change any time soon


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 02:50 [#00349842]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular | Followup to flea: #00349836



yes, i do know what the economic sactions and military
attacks have done to the iraqi people.

i dont know if they'll get rid of Saddam himself, but i
think if the U.S. were to attack Iraq, they have a pretty
good, no SURE chance of destroying his regieme (sp?) and
government there.

the same government that KICKED OUT U.N. arms inspectors and
provoked the sanctions against the Iraqi people.

the same government that wouldn't let them back in, even
though the sanctions were killing its people!


 

offline outside_ninja from ninjaland (I touch no-one and on 2002-08-15 03:04 [#00349854]
Points: 462 Status: Addict



Watch out - the FBI will track you through your IP and plant
drugs and weapons in your houses.


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 04:03 [#00349893]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to AMinal: #00349842



The regime that they have replaced Taliban with in
Afghanistan have per capita worse human rights violation
than the entire Taliban did..so what purpose does it serve
other than the US oil interests (Hamid Karzai was an
employee of UNOCAL..look it up I am too tired to rpeat the
Oil/ENRON links over and over)..what the removal Taliban has
achieved is plunging Afghanistan into another bloody endless
Civil War..

The UN arms inspectors WERE CIA..it's been long since proven
and confirmed..

Well some of the same atrocities (my biggest problem with
the current Iraqi regime is their treatment of the Kurds)
are being carried out by Turkey as well..(Kurd cleansing is
active as we speak in Turkey) but Turkey being a NATO nation
has a right to carry out such atrocities while in IRAQ it
merits a total decimation of a whole country's inncoent
population???..The killing of IRAQIS at the hands of US is
far greater in numbers than the Kurdish victims!!..

It's all about the oil..it's all about US approved regimes
being placed in strategic/oil rich territories to
aid,enhance and continue the flow of cheap fuel for the
American Middleclass to burn on their way to family
outings...

all of this just simply doesnt add up..neither does saying
that you are anitwar and yet youu support War on Saddam..


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 04:10 [#00349897]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular



+mass dis-armnent and lovin will only work if EVERYBODY does

it all at once
if only one country (for example) did it.. there woudl be no

shortage of evil violent people wanting to take advantage of

that. +

well it has happened in NZ..not only are we Nuclear free
much to the annoyance of the US and it's allies as they cant
dock their Ships containing Nuclear matter in our ports nor
can they take it past our waters...

We just recently dumped the Strike force of the AirForce..to
expand on a fleet more suitable for rescue..missions
we are yet to see any EVIL..(or Dr.EVIL for that matter)
take advantage of it..

How did it all come about?..Petitions...yes petitions
work..all we need is for people like you to harp on a bit
less about futility of it all and actually signing these
pettitions..

that is unless you ARE actually happy with the State of the
Affairs..then..hey nobody is forcing you to do
anything..just be willing to face the truth that you are
perfectly happy with the situation the way its..that you are
NOT antiwar..but rather just oblivious to it's effects..



 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 04:39 [#00349910]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular



Most of the Evil that Bush is out to eliminate was actually
perpetuated by the previous US regimes

1) Bin Laden was created armed funded and supported in the
US initiatives in Afghanistan during the Cold War to sucker
punch the Soviets..

20 years later Bin Laden is the public Enemy number 1

2) Taliban was heartily supported welcomed supported and
encouraged not only by the Clinton regime but also by the
Wall Street Journal and the many Oil corporate heads of
Texas in hopes that Taliban will bring the Civil War to a
rest so that the pipeline from Uzbekistan to Pakistan via
Afghansistan will become a reality..

6 years later the Taliban is the very definition of Evil..

3)Saddam Hussain was vastly funded and supported by the US
in his war on Iran (The then vilest evilest of all
countries..remember Ayatollah Khomani?..the other bearded
comic book bad guy before Bin Laden?)..not only did IRAQ get
forwarded untold amounts of conventional weapons but..read
this very carefully..

The US gave IRAQ the ability and facilities to create
Biological Weapons..so that they could be tested and used on
the Iranians...

At the same time Ollie North and Reagen's regime was arming
Iran under the table with Iran Contra contraband..

a decade later Saddam and Iraq is the evil figurehead that
just must be eliminated with another decade of war...

dont you see a pattern there..

US faux pas being covered and whitewashed with more faux
pas?

Wait for for the 5 years..when all of these US backed heros
of the region became all the evilest villians..and the whole
cycle repeats...


 

offline smokehammer from Saigon (Vietnam) on 2002-08-15 09:04 [#00350404]
Points: 1463 Status: Lurker



funny how people shut the fuck up when its put in black and
white eh flea ? ;)


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-15 09:13 [#00350416]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



I find it so infuriating that those defined as a threat to
"democracy" are deemed so by virtue of the fact that they
have "weapons of mass destruction". WTF?! So the US don't?!
They use tickle-sticks and custard pies?

The US has a rich history of murdering and torturing people
around the (usually 3rd) world. A recent example was the
bombing of a pharmecutical factory in Sudan. Aside from
those killed directly by the bomb blast, tens of thousands
have died as a result of lack of medicines. And this was
done by the country that defines who is 'good' and 'evil' in
the world.


 

offline Archrival on 2002-08-15 09:46 [#00350469]
Points: 4265 Status: Lurker



ANTI-WARP EDITION


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-08-15 09:47 [#00350470]
Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to jonesy: #00350416



+WTF?! So the US don't?!
They use tickle-sticks and custard pies? +

LOL..

but even the terrorists are not using Weapons of Mass
Destruction

In Oaklahoma they used a whole lotta Fertilizer..

and on 9/11..box cutters, knives and Airplanes?..

The Anthrax was originated and distributed in the US by US
men

so why this recent push on disarnament? of coming down on
weapons of mass destruction that the US doesnt have?..

Why not stop the production and distribution of
fertilizer?...box cutters, knives?..and the biggest Weapon
of Mass Destruction of them all..Airplanes???


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-08-15 12:55 [#00350714]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



http://pilger.carlton.com/print/111624


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 19:46 [#00351166]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular | Followup to flea: #00349910



ya man, i KNOW, trust me

ya ya, the US is very 'evil' and crooked and they're
motivations for going to war are NOT what they would have u
think, and they've commited plenty of crimes in the past,
and they continue to do so today and its all about money
(oil) etc etc etc.....

but ur not seeing my point.....

even if the U.S.'s REAL motivations have to do w/ oil and
they're misleading they're population to support the war....
(which i DONT neccessarily disagree with)...

it doesn't change the facts about the Iraqi government
the facts i stated earlier, which you didn't disagree with.

these facts make them seem very dangerous.... and i wouldn't
mind them taken out.

i mean, do you really like saddam husein? do you know what
he and his government has done?!?!
do u support him or something?



 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 20:11 [#00351192]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular



ok this is all im trying to say:

1) the U.S.'s bs they've pulled in the past is all very
impressive and incriminating, but its irrelevent. so are
they're REAL motivations.
the Iraqi gov. is dangerous, and i wouldn't mind it being
taken out, even if the U.S. is actually doing it for the
'wrong' reasons..... there ARE right reasons to do it.

2) ya canada is 'nuclear-weapons-free' too..... so what?
do you think THIS petition will work?
cus the issue at hand is the war on Iraq, and the petition
is THIS one.
i'd like to hear osmeone say it would work, it'll be funny.

3) on the issue of mass-disarment...

Canada and NZ are in similar situations.
we're both wimpy, militaristically UNimportant (almost
irrelevent) countries. nobody HATES us the way they do the
U.S.....
..and (most importantly) we both have some very powerful
friends, who would certainly come to our aid if we were ever
threatened.

all this makes it very easy for us to be peaceful.

nobody in their right minds would try to attack a first
world country like this as long as we're friends w/ the REST
of the first world, which happens to be very well armed.

try to convince the U.S. to give up weapons.... or better
yet, try to convince Iraq, Iran, Syria, China, etc to give
up weaons

as long as SOME countries (especially those ruled by violent
dictators) have armies..... other countries will maintain
armies as a deterent.

so.... i sort of made a mistake earlier... my "one country"
example was wrong, and actually thats not really what i
meant....
one country can do it b/c there'd still be a deterent to
attack: that countries friends.

as long as there are crazy dictators, or any war-thirsty
countries for a that matter, with armies....... other
countries will maintain some sort of deterent.


 

offline outside_ninja from ninjaland (I touch no-one and on 2002-08-15 20:16 [#00351196]
Points: 462 Status: Addict



The quicker we are bombed out of existence, the quicker the
rest of nature can recover (as long as we don't literally
blow up the earth)


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 20:18 [#00351198]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular



"all of this just simply doesnt add up..neither does saying
that you are anitwar and yet youu support War on Saddam.. "

ya, i hate war but SOME wars are justified...
for example (if i were alive) i would have supported the
allies in World War One...
wouldn't you have?

..oh, and coudl u please explain what u meant by saying that
the new regieme in afganistan has commited more human rights
atrocities 'per capita' than the old one?

i mean, they've only been around for well under a year, it
takes a while for these things to be researched,
investigated, and to go through all the paperwork over at
the U.N.....

(btw im not disagreeing w/ u.... i just really do want to
know)


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-08-15 20:19 [#00351201]
Points: 3476 Status: Regular | Followup to outside_ninja: #00351196



yup:)

http://www.vhemt.org/


 


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