Do you deny or confirm that the war is paid for by the American tax payer, i.e. essentiall every American adult?
just tbc - are you encouraging people to risk going to jail or losing their homes for refusing to pay war taxes (I've actually known a couple people - Quakers - who did just that, tho it's clearly not an option for most people)? more to the point, are you saying that anyone who
doesn't refuse to pay their taxes cannot be against the war? because that sounds like a rather specious argument to me. also - did -you- make a point of not paying your war taxes, or any other taxes you find unpleasant (if you pay taxes at all, I guess)? or did you just pay them like most everyone else?
Do you deny or confirm that in the 2004 US presidential election, the overwhelming majority of the electorate either voted for a pro-war candidate (Bush, Kerry) or abstained from the vote (which is a "I don't care about the war" vote)?
and what do you suggest they should have done instead? storm the White House & implement a glorious dictatorship of the proletariat? back Ralph Nader? some kind of happy medium between the two? really, let's hear your brilliant ideas. (I'm in the third category, btw, and mine was very much
not an "I don't care about the war" vote)
also, whatever you make of the decision to go to war - undoubtedly, it was a bad one - once you break something, you have a responsibility to stick around & try to implement
some kind of functioning society. in fact, say what you will about American imperialism - & there's plenty that could be said - it's kinda amazing that Iraq is functional enough to hold reasonably open elections that - it seems - will lead to a nonviolent transfer of power between regimes. I won't say it's better than it was before the invasion (though that's v. likely true, between Saddam & the sanctions), but it's leaps & bounds better than it would've been had the U.S. withdrawn in 2004. I don't believe you or anybody else seriously thinks otherwise; mind, I'm not giving all the credit for that to Americans, but a large share, definitely.
Nobody has claimed any of this in this thread.
oh, come off it. seriously.