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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: epicure who wrote (12142)	2/24/2003 12:32:29 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 25898

As jla pointed out, monitoring is hardly foolproof. In fact, pretty much everybody either officially or unofficially acknowledges that Saddam has retained and is working to develop his WMD capacity. Even Partytime, the thread host, here just said earlier today he thinks Saddam retains chemical weapons - of course, he trusts Saddam to only use them defensively. You're wrong about one thing - You'd like this to be WWII. I wouldn't like a confrontation with Iraq to be anything like WWII. I want to avoid anything big and bloody like that by preventing it from happening by a short, much less bloody fight now. Yes, WWII is consider a "good war" now. But it didn't universally become that till Pearl Harbor. Before that there was a strong antiwar movement opposed to getting involved. The opposition came from both the right and the left just as it does in the case of Iraq. The left opposed war because the USSR had made a deal with Germany. And on the right, people said our more serious enemy (communism) was elsewhere and was against fascism was a diversion from that. Even today, you antiwar folks have allies on the far right who think we fought on the wrong side in WWII (Craig Crawford and Emile Vidrine have said so on this thread).

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