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Re: Saddam To Be Hanged
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
So you know all about the Blackpool plans then? 
By not taking action to help keep a nation from expanding into other territories, you are supporting that nation's actions, whether you like it or not.
If you walk on by while one kid beats up another kid in the street, you're supporting that kid in his attack. |
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
By doing nothing we are sending a message that such behaviour is acceptable.
Phoning the police from round the corner and letting them know what is going on so that they can intervene is doing something, how is the attacker going to know it was you?
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Wouldn't you have to "walk on by" to get to the phone around the corner?
Two good quotes from a bbc news webpage of the time - doesn't sound like TB thinks the protestors were "implicitly" supporting Saddam.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2773771.stm
"Mr Blair said he "should and does listen to the thousands that marched on Saturday" in anti-war protests. He insisted most of the marchers were not against war in all circumstances but were opposed to a war that was "rushed or unnecessary".
And a quick quote from Charles Kennedy on the same page, which (imho) think is quite relevant considering some of the comments made in this thread.
""The prime minister implies - in making his moral case for regime change - that anyone who is not yet persuaded of the need for war is somehow less moral than he is.
"A lot of people in this country will resent that implication."
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