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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (206863)10/16/2004 11:39:00 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1575738
 
The resolution authorized serious consequences. To call Saddam's failure to prove that he has voluntarily disarmed a failure of the US (Saddam needed more time - do you really believe that?) is a bit silly.

It's silly to continue the exchange if you insist on misrepresenting facts. The first resolution called for a second resolution before consequences (presumably war). It was the very clause that delayed the signing of the first resolution. That clause was put in the resolution specifically because certain member nations knew that bush was looking to invade under the political (for home purposes) cover of a UN resolution. The leaders of these countries are not stupid, and I suspect they resent being manipulated dishonestly that way.

Saddam is gone and the Middle East has a shot at democracy if they want to take it. Sounds like a pretty good exit plan if you ask me.

This is a laughable exageration. More like this...Saddam is gone, Iraq is a mess and likely to descend to civil war is we leave as you suggest, Arabs are angrier than ever at the US, AlQueda is ever popular (these two last points are connected and have real tangible consequential potential), fundamentalism thrives, Pakistan is unstable and has nukes, Iran is unstable and is on the way to having nukes, Saudi Arabia is still a cauldron of trouble, and the Palestinian situation is worst than ever and no one gives a damn.

Al
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