--- Lori Fye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me be counted in opposition to a war on Iraq. > > Thank you Marianne. Count me in too. > > Here I go again, throwing out my not-fully-informed > opinion (although I > doubt anyone here is fully informed about the > proposed war) ...
And you are not the only ones. Many of us find the whole thing confusing. What the hell is going on? How informed are we, really? There was a rather funny column by Linwood Barclay in today's Toronto Star (link http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026146106121&call_page=TS_News_Columnists&call_pageid=970599109774&call_pagepath=Columnists ) Cripes, is that link long enough for you or what? He is a humour columnist, so don't expect anything too serious. He suggests that, when things become too confusing, he turns to celebrity opinions for the answers. Despite the humour, however, he sums it all up for me in his second paragraph, which pretty much echoes the way I feel about this whole thing. To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm paying it as much attention as I should, but I find the more I read, watch and hear about it, the more confused I become. And then again, who do you trust to give you the whole story? Does anyone give the facts, just the facts anymore? Here's his 2nd paragraph: "As you can tell, I'm pretty confused. I've tried reading all the different papers, watching Newsworld and CNN. I've listened to Wolf Blitzer and his guests, watched the left and right foam at the mouth on Crossfire. I've tuned in to Larry King on several occasions, and the only thing I'm sure of is that Robert Blake probably did it. But as for the Iraq thing, the more information I get, the less I seem to know." I don't want war. I don't want my neighbours going to war. I don't want Iraqi kids killed when the point is supposed to be getting rid of Saddam Hussein (to be replaced with whom, I wonder? but that's another story). Maybe I've watched too many movies, but where are the trained assassins who could target the one they're really after? Why do we need bombs? Why not Bush and Hussein, boxing gloves, high noon, downtown Geneva? Where the hell is James Bond when you need him? Yup, I'm confused. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
