The most meaningless conflict

**mercian billman** · 06-03-2005, 23:10

I'll nominate the Falklands war as being a pointless waste of life.

The war was fought because the Argentinian Junta wanted to rally political support around them, and ended up getting 655 Argentinians and 236 Brits killed. Not as pointless as WW1, but still resulted in unescesary (sp) loss of life over a few small islands inhabited by less than 2000 people.

**Marquis of Roland** · 06-04-2005, 05:18

I thought the point of the Crimean War was to test out all those nifty weapons that were invented over the prior 30 years or so, no?

Actually, the most pointless war is still going on right now, in Iraq. I still don't know why Bush went to war with IRAQ. If anything, Saddam held the insurgents down, taking him out was tantamount to opening a pandora's box. No weapons of mass destruction were found, something the UN weapons inspectors have been trying to tell the U.S. for about a decade already. I can't believe Bush got reelected (I voted for Kerry, damnit

), it really scares me that the average American these days are so stupid and apathetic that large reason for why people voted for Bush was because "we know how bad he is, we don't know how much worse Kerry could be". Unless it be those ultranationalistic "red states" in which people say that he is the president and the president can do no wrong (which is why Americans are so compatible to live in a fascist dictatorship, we hardly vote to influence governmental decisions anyway).