Comments on: The War in Iraq – Happy Anniversary! http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/ My most notorious writings Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: E.C. http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-492 E.C. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:56:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-492 How to stop a war.<br/><br/>In the Vietnam war only 30% of the American soldiers going to the front line fired their weapons. The remaining soldiers had 100% of the bullets still in their guns.<br/><br/>So the individual soldiers own conscience kept his finger off the trigger of his rifle. <br/><br/>Which, with the help of the protests back in America, helped lead to the end of the Vietnam war. <br/><br/>www.truenewspaper.blogspot.com How to stop a war.

In the Vietnam war only 30% of the American soldiers going to the front line fired their weapons. The remaining soldiers had 100% of the bullets still in their guns.

So the individual soldiers own conscience kept his finger off the trigger of his rifle.

Which, with the help of the protests back in America, helped lead to the end of the Vietnam war.

http://www.truenewspaper.blogspot.com

]]> By: Pam http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Pam Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:02:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-286 One of my fellow authors put up a blog post about the cost of war. It fits nicely with some of the points that you have made here, so, I thought I'd direct you to it... at EverydayCitizen.com .... she calls the post:<br/><a HREF="http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/11/his_war_costs_much_more_than_w.html" REL="nofollow">Economists Explain: Bush Destroyed Our American Dream</a> and it's at this address:<br/>http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/11/his_war_costs_much_more_than_w.html<br/><br/>Love your blog,<br/>Nora One of my fellow authors put up a blog post about the cost of war. It fits nicely with some of the points that you have made here, so, I thought I’d direct you to it… at EverydayCitizen.com …. she calls the post:
Economists Explain: Bush Destroyed Our American Dream and it’s at this address:
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/11/his_war_costs_much_more_than_w.html

Love your blog,
Nora

]]> By: Anonymous http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Anonymous Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:54:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-277 it is amazinghow many people we can save with i day without the iraq war! it is amazinghow many people we can save with i day without the iraq war!

]]> By: Megan http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Megan Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:12:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-267 i have read this kind of thing over and over and everytime i read about the war, i never see any good coming from it. i understand what we are fighting for. I guess i just dont grasp what we are trying to prove. we dont need it. Its a waste of life, litteraly cause even if the people who are lucky enough come home alive. They are still scared for life and will never be the same person. I love kids and i wouldn't be able to stand for shooting a inocent child whos only issue was being born in the wrong place, & who is ignorent to what they are doing is wrong. I think it all falls back on the lack of eduication. as a well developed country and public schools its hard for me to beleive that there is nothing anyone can do about it. Im in an average senior in high school and it makes me sick to think that people honestly beleive this is not only all there is to do but the only way to go about things. I pray for peace everynight although i know its a fat chance. i also pray for the soilders. not only americans all of them and i hope that one day this will all be over before things get to bad. I think that the news should also use some of these satisics and see how that effects what people think. I know most of us sit on our asses in front of a t.v or a computer for a pretty good part of the week. Or maybe makeing comercails. something. anything. like i said i hope everyones alright and i hope all is not lost. i have read this kind of thing over and over and everytime i read about the war, i never see any good coming from it. i understand what we are fighting for. I guess i just dont grasp what we are trying to prove. we dont need it. Its a waste of life, litteraly cause even if the people who are lucky enough come home alive. They are still scared for life and will never be the same person. I love kids and i wouldn’t be able to stand for shooting a inocent child whos only issue was being born in the wrong place, & who is ignorent to what they are doing is wrong. I think it all falls back on the lack of eduication. as a well developed country and public schools its hard for me to beleive that there is nothing anyone can do about it. Im in an average senior in high school and it makes me sick to think that people honestly beleive this is not only all there is to do but the only way to go about things. I pray for peace everynight although i know its a fat chance. i also pray for the soilders. not only americans all of them and i hope that one day this will all be over before things get to bad. I think that the news should also use some of these satisics and see how that effects what people think. I know most of us sit on our asses in front of a t.v or a computer for a pretty good part of the week. Or maybe makeing comercails. something. anything. like i said i hope everyones alright and i hope all is not lost.

]]> By: Peter Casier http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Peter Casier Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:36:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-126 The only thing the article does is to put figures in a certain perspective.<br/>You are right that it is not the duty of the US to feed the world's hungry. It is the duty from all of us.<br/>Unfortunately, I only had the figures from the cost of the war to the US. Imagine how many hungry we could feed with the TOTAL cost of the war involving all warring nations...<br/><br/>Peter<br/><br/>Peter The only thing the article does is to put figures in a certain perspective.
You are right that it is not the duty of the US to feed the world’s hungry. It is the duty from all of us.
Unfortunately, I only had the figures from the cost of the war to the US. Imagine how many hungry we could feed with the TOTAL cost of the war involving all warring nations…

Peter

Peter

]]> By: the Rising Jurist http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-125 the Rising Jurist Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:08:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-125 It's a rather pedantic point since it isn't the job of the U.S. to feed the world's hungry. It’s a rather pedantic point since it isn’t the job of the U.S. to feed the world’s hungry.

]]> By: Vô Bojangles http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Vô Bojangles Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:19:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-122 Most comments above show clearly why northamerikans are 'not very liked' around our planet. War for the sake of economy is not an acceptable human attitude.<br/>I live in a country where every kid attending public school is supposed to get not a lunch, but a full healthy, nutritious meal. The state where I live in banned junkfood from school canteens (bad for coca-cola). Parents of families living under poverty line get state help if they send their kids to school. They also get offer of professional qualifying. Policies are: feed them first so they'r able to learn and better their lives.<br/>That's payed with our tax money and not with US 'human' aid, which is only a small tax you pay for plundering foreign countries without need of war.<br/>Now you are 'breaking your face' in Vietrak and you only have to loose, as in a popular local saying: "if you stay, the beast gets you; if you run, the beast gets you".<br/>Will you ever learn what 'being human' is all about?<br/>Of course I expect majority calling me commie. Ignorance is fierce.<br/>Wake up, stand up and join a really free and peacefull world, with no psychopathic empreror dictating foolish rules and wars. Most comments above show clearly why northamerikans are ‘not very liked’ around our planet. War for the sake of economy is not an acceptable human attitude.
I live in a country where every kid attending public school is supposed to get not a lunch, but a full healthy, nutritious meal. The state where I live in banned junkfood from school canteens (bad for coca-cola). Parents of families living under poverty line get state help if they send their kids to school. They also get offer of professional qualifying. Policies are: feed them first so they’r able to learn and better their lives.
That’s payed with our tax money and not with US ‘human’ aid, which is only a small tax you pay for plundering foreign countries without need of war.
Now you are ‘breaking your face’ in Vietrak and you only have to loose, as in a popular local saying: “if you stay, the beast gets you; if you run, the beast gets you”.
Will you ever learn what ‘being human’ is all about?
Of course I expect majority calling me commie. Ignorance is fierce.
Wake up, stand up and join a really free and peacefull world, with no psychopathic empreror dictating foolish rules and wars.

]]> By: Peter Casier http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Peter Casier Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:52:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-120 I fully agree with you that 'feeding' is not enough! It should go hand in hand with longer term development. That's why the package of .19 cents/day to feed a child is part of a school feeding programme: the kids get a meal when they attend classes. So it encourages children to go to school.. Of course it goes together with loads of other programmes of different agencies/NGOs (ensuring there are enough schools, sufficient teachers, teaching material).<br/><br/>p. I fully agree with you that ‘feeding’ is not enough! It should go hand in hand with longer term development. That’s why the package of .19 cents/day to feed a child is part of a school feeding programme: the kids get a meal when they attend classes. So it encourages children to go to school.. Of course it goes together with loads of other programmes of different agencies/NGOs (ensuring there are enough schools, sufficient teachers, teaching material).

p.

]]> By: Anonymous http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Anonymous Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:43:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-119 First, I think it is good to still have people who want to make the world a better place.<br/><br/>I know this is not the place for what I’m going to say but I have to say it anyway.<br/> I’m a young man from Macedonia, and if you remember, the US bombarded Serbia a few years before. And while the bombing was to force the president of Serbia at that time to resign from office, the US didn’t cared who they actually hurt bombarding (although it wasn’t just the US who wanted for the president to resign, the US was the only one who thought it’s wise to do that by brute force). Hitting factories and school (closed at that time but…), devastating bridges, and actually killing innocent people. The bombs themselves whore radioactive, And since the bombing took part very near the border of Macedonia and it mayor city Skopje, there have been many new cases of cancer and similar radioactive related diseases, since the nine months of bombing, just in Skopje where I live.<br/> Now my point is not to blame the US for all the wrong it the world, but to point to the people living in and around Iraq, the fear the face every day, fearing there child can be accidentally killed by a lost bullet, fearing there wife or husband can be blasted while working in a building associated whit the government.<br/> I wouldn’t mind paying that price if it was for rightful purposes, because sometimes war must precede peaceful and prosperous times. But I find the price paid in human lives, poverty, famine, fear, and money, for some individual to get richer and cheaper gas overwhelming. <br/>And Peter think about paying teachers to teach the children instead just giving them meals. Because if the child have someone who can teach them, they wont be hungry for long. If you give man bread, you will feed him for a day, but teach him to make bread and you will feed him for life. First, I think it is good to still have people who want to make the world a better place.

I know this is not the place for what I’m going to say but I have to say it anyway.
I’m a young man from Macedonia, and if you remember, the US bombarded Serbia a few years before. And while the bombing was to force the president of Serbia at that time to resign from office, the US didn’t cared who they actually hurt bombarding (although it wasn’t just the US who wanted for the president to resign, the US was the only one who thought it’s wise to do that by brute force). Hitting factories and school (closed at that time but…), devastating bridges, and actually killing innocent people. The bombs themselves whore radioactive, And since the bombing took part very near the border of Macedonia and it mayor city Skopje, there have been many new cases of cancer and similar radioactive related diseases, since the nine months of bombing, just in Skopje where I live.
Now my point is not to blame the US for all the wrong it the world, but to point to the people living in and around Iraq, the fear the face every day, fearing there child can be accidentally killed by a lost bullet, fearing there wife or husband can be blasted while working in a building associated whit the government.
I wouldn’t mind paying that price if it was for rightful purposes, because sometimes war must precede peaceful and prosperous times. But I find the price paid in human lives, poverty, famine, fear, and money, for some individual to get richer and cheaper gas overwhelming.
And Peter think about paying teachers to teach the children instead just giving them meals. Because if the child have someone who can teach them, they wont be hungry for long. If you give man bread, you will feed him for a day, but teach him to make bread and you will feed him for life.

]]> By: Anonymous http://petercasier.be/writing/the-war-in-iraq-happy-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Anonymous Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:31:00 +0000 http://petercasier.be/writing/?p=92#comment-118 Then you buy/steal for him/her a bigger gun. Then you buy/steal for him/her a bigger gun.

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