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To: stockman_scott who wrote (20713)1/8/2003 11:24:41 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (2) of 104145
 
Hmm, I'm not actually opposed to removing Saddam from power.
I am opposed to
- doing so under a plainly false, self-serving and hypocritical excuse
- doing so without a clear, approved and public mandate
- doing so without a promise not to loot Iraq's oil wealth in whatever guise
- doing so without a commitment to stay in, whatever the cost, and sort out the mess which will inevitably be caused.

I am opposed to a "fly over, f*uck the country and f*uck off" as done in Afghanistan - which is now in a worse state than it was the last time the warlords were in power, immediately before the Taliban came in there with such support partly because people thought they couldn't be worse.

I'm also opposed to us going in because Cheney wants to plumpen the pockets of his buddies in Halliburton, or because unreconstructed Nixonites want to run the country in secret and use a pretend war as an excuse (Poindexter).

Blair? No idea where he really stands, but his tongue these days seems suspiciously long and brown.
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