[Sleeper]

Isn't this a basketball officals board? I love the political discussion and all, but what if A is dribbling down the court, and as he his going out of bounds he is flashed by a cheerleader. He passes the ball to a teammate before landing on the coach's grandmother, sitting in her wheel chair and enjoying a Beam and Coke in a public school gym. The teammate is the process of shooting when the electricity goes out, and when the lights come back on someone has stolen the mascots head and put it on the shooters left foot, who is lying on the floor after being hit in the head with a large salmon and the shot went in because you could hear the swish of the net in the dark......

Seriously, though, topics can be debated without the emotion. Is this about politics, YES. There are two societies who have diametrically opposed reasons for existance. One believes in freedom and liberty, the other does not. It this a moral issues, YES. The politics of the situation led to a morally reprehensible decision by the terrorists. Should we bomb Iraq and their buddies into the stone age, YES. I think we bomb a big enough crater that we can fill it with water and have a small inland sea or really big bass lake, which ever comes first.

Rut, I do have to disagree with you on one point. Sometimes, as the country we are, we have to stand up for what is right. Not because it is politically expedient, but because the world is a better place because we do. Politics or not, the world is NOT a better place with people like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Sadam Hussein and Yassir Arafat in it. They all have show a blatant disregard for human life. If they are so high on the status of martyrdom, then the only neighborly thing to do is arrange the meeting for them.

[Edited by Sleeper on Sep 13th, 2002 at 12:00 PM]