10 years of the "war on Terror"

[Banshee]

10 years ago criminals committed a crime when they killed 3,000 people. This was a terrible crime committed by extremists. It was not an act of war as it was not a country attacking another country, but was a group of criminals attacking innocent people.
This crime was used as a reason and justification for declaring war on another country. The USA should have treated it as a crime and rightly hunted down the actual criminals. The perpetrators obviously died at the time, so then hunting down the organisers was entirely justified, but why declare war on a whole country and then go on to kill their innocent people.
I cant believe that 10 years later we are still so far into this and still so far up the a**e of USA that there doesn't seem to be a way out. As even the act of pulling out could leave devastation. Or so the government would have us believe.
Lets just say "we are done now" and just leave. I think it is an insult to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq to say that without us they will fall to pieces. lets leave them to run their own country as they deem fit. Lets get out of Libya too. Trust people to do things for themselves.
When we back USA we sell our souls to the devil. Surely we have learned by now that when you do that. there are always consequences. We are now as hated as USA and the world is not a safer place because of it. The world has become a much more dangerous place.

[Shadow]

Ive found myself becoming more and more depressed at what is being done on pretext of the "War on Terror " to the point that Im actually begining to believe that we are becoming little more than terrorists ourselves in the eyes of others.We have sat back whilst America routinely murders civilians with its predatordrones whilst conducting a hunt for alleged terrorists and carrying out assassinations of those people.Is this war about justice-Im not so sure-smacks of revenge and when you add torture,detention without trial,entering other countries and killing its civilians etc-well are we really the good guys?

[Banshee]

I agree Shads
As the old saying goes "one mans terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter" It all depends on the success of the propaganda, doesn't it?
If killing another person is wrong, then its surely wrong. How does our killing become less wrong than someone else's killing?
Like the scene from 'Lock Stock'- when they need to pause and re-think it all. "Will everyone just stop getting f***ing shot".

Lets just stop the killing and pause to re-think all this. There is always another way.

[Shadow]

And in the two months since I posted wow look at whats happened ;)Is it Iran next

[Banshee]

Please al sign the petition:

1. No attack on Iran

Sign the Statement by Stop the War Coalition here...
www.stopwar.iparl.com/petition/6

[Shadow]

Ive signed it but being honest I dont have faith in it doing any good at all.My firm belief is that the things happening now were planned and set in motion along time ago.My goodness after the disgrace of the attack on Iraq shortly after the bombing of the twin towers based on the lie about WOMD Ive got used to being bullshitted by our leaders-and the events in the last few years have only served to reinforce that.We are kept in a permanent state of fear so that our unelected government can roll in what measures it deems necessary-we have no money eh???Well enough to fund regime change in Libya even tho we dont know who the hell the rebels are and now apparently enough to be shaking our fists at Iran.So Iran is a threat now eh? You know what-its a bloody joke-Bush was on about them 10 years back-my god they might have made 4 nucleur bombs eek-how many die daily cos America deploys Drones and have developed nuclear weaponry with Iran in mind-whose gonna tell them enough is enough-not us thats for sure

[BRS]

We have a paradox here people.

Western governments US/UK primarily have declared WAR on terrorism.

Therfore it follows - Terrorism is war!

THEN HOW THE F^^^ CAN YOU DECLARE -WAR ON WAR??