Soldier butchered in street in Woolwich

[bzkfn]

These are murderers who killed an innocent man, forget anything else, this should not be lost in any political debate.

Exactly.

Simple as that. Lets see what prison sentance they both receive for this.

Probably life.
Good behaviour cuts it in half to15 years.

Haha, you're joking mate. They will get indefinate sentences. Or a minimum of 30 years.

You sir, are an eternal optimist.

They should probably just pass these 2 guys to the EDL. That way the EDL stop rioting against innocent people and get to deliver the justice they want.

Although thinking they'd stop there probably makes me a bit of an optimist.

[ryanman]

These are murderers who killed an innocent man, forget anything else, this should not be lost in any political debate.

Exactly.

Simple as that. Lets see what prison sentance they both receive for this.

Probably life.
Good behaviour cuts it in half to15 years.

Haha, you're joking mate. They will get indefinate sentences. Or a minimum of 30 years.

You sir, are an eternal optimist.

They should probably just pass these 2 guys to the EDL. That way the EDL stop rioting against innocent people and get to deliver the justice they want.

Although thinking they'd stop there probably makes me a bit of an optimist.

There is no way this will be a 'life reduced to 15 years' sentence. No way. That's just Daily Mail talk.

[Beanz]

Well done Kirkland in making excuses for the cowardly barbarous murder of civilians. You can't legitimise 9/11 by saying killing civilians is the fault of anyone but those who carried it out.

[Kirkland Laing]

Well done Kirkland in making excuses for the cowardly barbarous murder of civilians. You can't legitimise 9/11 by saying killing civilians is the fault of anyone but those who carried it out.

I'm not making an excuse for anything or trying to justify anything.

Let's say me and you are going to a football match. We're seated outside a pub before the game enjoying a glass of chilled chablis and watching the world go by. On the other side of the street X, a big bugger in stylish blue polyester, is walking down the street. Y, a smaller man clad in red ployester, is walking the other way. As they come up to each other X punches Y right in the dish. Y falls to the ground, gets up, takes a knife out of his pocket and stabs Y with it, killing him instantly.

Now lter we're talking about the incident. I say to you that if X hadn't punched Y in the face in the first place then he'd never have been stabbed and killed. I might also comment on the nature of violent acts begetting further violence. I see this as reasonable speculation about the incident and violent acts in general. Neither of these two arguments negates the fact that the stabbing was a reprehensible act of murder, excuses it or justifies it in any way.

[Beanz]

Well done Kirkland in making excuses for the cowardly barbarous murder of civilians. You can't legitimise 9/11 by saying killing civilians is the fault of anyone but those who carried it out.

I'm not making an excuse for anything or trying to justify anything.

Let's say me and you are going to a football match. We're seated outside a pub before the game enjoying a glass of chilled chablis and watching the world go by. On the other side of the street X, a big bugger in stylish blue polyester, is walking down the street. Y, a smaller man clad in red ployester, is walking the other way. As they come up to each other X punches Y right in the dish. Y falls to the ground, gets up, takes a knife out of his pocket and stabs Y with it, killing him instantly.

Now lter we're talking about the incident. I say to you that if X hadn't punched Y in the face in the first place then he'd never have been stabbed and killed. I might also comment on the nature of violent acts begetting further violence. I see this as reasonable speculation about the incident and violent acts in general. Neither of these two arguments negates the fact that the stabbing was a reprehensible act of murder, excuses it or justifies it in any way.

" And it's that kind of thing that pisses Muslims off and causes them to bomb your skyscrapers, sporting events etc."

Those people had an agenda. That agenda was not to draw attention to an injustice suffered by innocent civilians at the hands of indiscriminate carpet bombing by allied forces. Their agenda was the propagation of extremist ideology and the glorification of violence. So clever is this agenda that you and thousands of well meaning people like yourself have now been used to propagate it. To call them Muslim, and this is where both you and Lyle agree, is to further heap insult onto the civilian victims of extremism who would not raise their hand in violence.

Miles who like yourself, I would in many instances defer to as having superior knowledge on politics, economy and history comes to the same conclusion as you and it surprises me considering his distaste for religion. These same religious extremists are often responsible for agitation and the escalation of sectarian violence within Muslim countries. Their war is not just with Britain,America and the West but with moderates in their own countries who would condone the mutilation of women, the burning of books and the execution of ethnic groups they deem to not be pious or totalitarian enough in enforcing their own twisted brand of religion.


If we are really interested in justice then how hypocritical is it to enjoy the benefits of living in a flawed but basically decent democratic society and then turn our eyes away from those whose own liberties are trampled on by despotic leaders who seek to persecute and wipe out those who seek nothing more than the human rights we hold dear ? You can pretend that the Iraq war was all about Oil but that is a gross over simplification and misrepresentation of a conflict prompted by much more than that and at it's heart represented a universalism and willingness to stand alongside others who wished for nothing more than the opportunity to aspire to liberal ideals.


The Left has let down many oppressed people in these conflicts by deluding themselves into thinking that groups like the Taliban can be reasoned with or that the victims of such nutjobs should be allowed to remain subjugated in order to ease their own uncomfortable feelings about the harsh bloody realities of liberation. I say this as somebody who I consider to be way farther to the left than either yourself or Miles. Pacifism does not work and the kind of socialism that busies itself only with the interests of it's own members due to something as arbitrary as nationality is acting in a far more self interested way than the most hard hearted of Capitalists.

[Kirkland Laing]

Well done Kirkland in making excuses for the cowardly barbarous murder of civilians. You can't legitimise 9/11 by saying killing civilians is the fault of anyone but those who carried it out.

I'm not making an excuse for anything or trying to justify anything.

Let's say me and you are going to a football match. We're seated outside a pub before the game enjoying a glass of chilled chablis and watching the world go by. On the other side of the street X, a big bugger in stylish blue polyester, is walking down the street. Y, a smaller man clad in red ployester, is walking the other way. As they come up to each other X punches Y right in the dish. Y falls to the ground, gets up, takes a knife out of his pocket and stabs Y with it, killing him instantly.

Now lter we're talking about the incident. I say to you that if X hadn't punched Y in the face in the first place then he'd never have been stabbed and killed. I might also comment on the nature of violent acts begetting further violence. I see this as reasonable speculation about the incident and violent acts in general. Neither of these two arguments negates the fact that the stabbing was a reprehensible act of murder, excuses it or justifies it in any way.

" And it's that kind of thing that pisses Muslims off and causes them to bomb your skyscrapers, sporting events etc."

Those people had an agenda. That agenda was not to draw attention to an injustice suffered by innocent civilians at the hands of indiscriminate carpet bombing by allied forces. Their agenda was the propagation of extremist ideology and the glorification of violence. So clever is this agenda that you and thousands of well meaning people like yourself have now been used to propagate it. To call them Muslim, and this is where both you and Lyle agree, is to further heap insult onto the civilian victims of extremism who would not raise their hand in violence.

Miles who like yourself, I would in many instances defer to as having superior knowledge on politics, economy and history comes to the same conclusion as you and it surprises me considering his distaste for religion. These same religious extremists are often responsible for agitation and the escalation of sectarian violence within Muslim countries. Their war is not just with Britain,America and the West but with moderates in their own countries who would condone the mutilation of women, the burning of books and the execution of ethnic groups they deem to not be pious or totalitarian enough in enforcing their own twisted brand of religion.


If we are really interested in justice then how hypocritical is it to enjoy the benefits of living in a flawed but basically decent democratic society and then turn our eyes away from those whose own liberties are trampled on by despotic leaders who seek to persecute and wipe out those who seek nothing more than the human rights we hold dear ? You can pretend that the Iraq war was all about Oil but that is a gross over simplification and misrepresentation of a conflict prompted by much more than that and at it's heart represented a universalism and willingness to stand alongside others who wished for nothing more than the opportunity to aspire to liberal ideals.


The Left has let down many oppressed people in these conflicts by deluding themselves into thinking that groups like the Taliban can be reasoned with or that the victims of such nutjobs should be allowed to remain subjugated in order to ease their own uncomfortable feelings about the harsh bloody realities of liberation. I say this as somebody who I consider to be way farther to the left than either yourself or Miles. Pacifism does not work and the kind of socialism that busies itself only with the interests of it's own members due to something as arbitrary as nationality is acting in a far more self interested way than the most hard hearted of Capitalists.

This is a whole bunch of different arguments to what you were originally on about. And you'relike Lyle in ascribing straw man arguments about liberal and lefties. Whichliberals think the Taliban can be reasoned with?

[Kirkland Laing]

You can pretend that the Iraq war was all about Oil but that is a gross over simplification and misrepresentation of a conflict prompted by much more than that and at it's heart represented a universalism and willingness to stand alongside others who wished for nothing more than the opportunity to aspire to liberal ideals.

There's no pretend about it. Iraq was entirely down to it having the world's second-largest oil reserve under its sands.

Five countries in the Arabian desert have more thanhalf the world's easily recoverable oil. If it was five coutries around the Sahara desert then a quater of America's foreign firepower would be clustered round those countries, America would be propping up those dictatorships and anytime one of those dictators fell out with America they'd become a credible threat to the national security of the United States.


It's not just a crazy leftie like me who thinks the Iraq war was all about oil. The current US Secretary of Defence thinks it was. The former Chairman of the Federal Reserve thinks it was. And the former top US General running the occupation in Iraq thinks it was.


Hagel: War for Oil | The Weekly Standard


Just clivk and listen for a couple of minutes, it's cued up right to the rlevant bit : EDIT : it is now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sd2JseupXQ&t=21m45s

And in a few years when oil hits two or four hundred dollars a barrel and fucks advanced economies up and countries start threatening each other over supplies it'll become crystal clear to everybody just why we went into Iraq. Almost everybody.

[El Kabong]

You posted a link with comments from that simpleton Chuck Hagel and that fat ape Michael Moore...gee however could I disagree with those two


A war for oil eh? Well according to this



We get a whopping 3.2% of our oil from Iraq....maaaaan why didn't we blow them up sooner? Also why didn't we blow up Canada? Pfffft that would be too easy I guess

[Howlin Mad Missy]

You posted a link with comments from that simpleton Chuck Hagel and that fat ape Michael Moore...gee however could I disagree with those two


A war for oil eh? Well according to this



We get a whopping 3.2% of our oil from Iraq....maaaaan why didn't we blow them up sooner? Also why didn't we blow up Canada? Pfffft that would be too easy I guess

however it's not going to last

List of countries by proven oil reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Countries - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

it's about securing 'future' oil reserves

[Kirkland Laing]

You posted a link with comments from that simpleton Chuck Hagel and that fat ape Michael Moore...gee however could I disagree with those two


A war for oil eh? Well according to this



We get a whopping 3.2% of our oil from Iraq....maaaaan why didn't we blow them up sooner? Also why didn't we blow up Canada? Pfffft that would be too easy I guess

It's not where you get your oil from. It's where American corporations get their oil from. American corporations don't give a flying fuck about you. You're just simpletons who get to buy their products and fight in their wars. They'll happily sell their oil to the highest bidders, whether that;s the Chinese, the Europeans or whoever.

And don't forget Iraq turned out to be a complete failure as far as what America wanted to see happen went. You invaded, couldn't set the political system up the way you wanted and ended up handing the country over to Iran.

Here's the handover press conference that the liberal media never showed you on your TV.

[Beanz]

There is a reason why the thread has turned to the Iraq war and it has nothing to do with me. Yourself and Miles and Lyle all took it down that dead end. As for Straw man arguments it really is not the case that I misrepresented your own arguments but rather that you have yourself resorted to creating such fallacies to defend an untenable position.

If like you attest the Iraq war was ENTIRELY about access to it's Oil reserves then what happened to the victims of genocide planned and carried out ? Were they not good enough reasons to question the lefts policy of turning a blind eye. Do you really think the wringing of hands or averting ones eyes while atrocities are carried out amounts to anything more than being an apologist for Murderous dictators like Saddam Hussein?

You are trying to make out that people who carry out acts of terror, whether in New York or Woolwich are seeking to avenge the deaths of innocent Muslims when in reality they are seeking to usher in a new regime of intolerance and barbarity in which more innocent people of all faiths and none are crushed under their medieval doctrines.

[El Kabong]

No Beanz all the Muslims do is "retaliate" the Westerners are the terrorists....the people who accept these people of different faiths into their communities and treat them in a neighborly fashion are the REAL bad people here and it's all because of their greed for oil, I mean search your soul, you know it to be true.

And the Jews, well honestly the Palestinians are just trying to reclaim what was rightfully theirs when they just up and decided to become "Palestinians" when they realized they were getting a Jewish neighbor and well one Holocaust wasn't enough so they'll just have to try again....crafty Jews....am I right Kirkland, eh comrade?!?!?

[Kirkland Laing]

There is a reason why the thread has turned to the Iraq war and it has nothing to do with me. Yourself and Miles and Lyle all took it down that dead end. As for Straw man arguments it really is not the case that I misrepresented your own arguments but rather that you have yourself resorted to creating such fallacies to defend an untenable position.

If like you attest the Iraq war was ENTIRELY about access to it's Oil reserves then what happened to the victims of genocide planned and carried out ? Were they not good enough reasons to question the lefts policy of turning a blind eye. Do you really think the wringing of hands or averting ones eyes while atrocities are carried out amounts to anything more than being an apologist for Murderous dictators like Saddam Hussein?

You are trying to make out that people who carry out acts of terror, whether in New York or Woolwich are seeking to avenge the deaths of innocent Muslims when in reality they are seeking to usher in a new regime of intolerance and barbarity in which more innocent people of all faiths and none are crushed under their medieval doctrines.

I only picked this one out of many points you made in your last post that I could have argued. I picked it because us fighting these wars is the reason we're getting incidents like Wollwich.

What untenable position am I defending?

We don't give a fuck what happens in any of these countries. When Saddam gassed the Kurds he was still on our side and Donald Rumsfeld flew over to sell him more gas.



The American DIA, the military version of the CIA produced a report that blamed the genocide at Halabja on the Iranians. It was the official US/western position that the Iranians gassed the Kurds until we fell out with Saddam and needed an excuse to go after him. Once again, we don'r give a flying fuck about democracy or human rights in that region. We prop up five dictatorships that border Iraq for fuck's sake. Why aren't we intervening in Bahrain right now to stop the repression and slaughter of the pro-democracy protestors, hmmm?

There guys might well want to turn the whole world Muslim but it's never going to happen, is it? All they're capable of is shit like Woolwich/Boston and the perps themselves have told you why they're doing it.