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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (171956)7/18/2003 12:31:51 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (2) of 1578122
 
This isn't even an issue. When you look at the good that will obviously come out of the war eventually, I think Blair had it right -- even
if they were wrong they'll be right in history -- because the cause was a righteous one.

Oh. but it is THE ISSUE...for one, the war was not sold on the implied rigtheousness of the "cause". This war, as you well know, was sold on the safety of Americans from tyrants who possess the world's most dangerous weapons. You cannot send this or any nation to war on a premise then change it when the initial one proves false. In the process damaging international unity, trampling over age old alliances, and destroying good will to this deep point.

first and foremost, Saddam's repeated violations of the UN resolutions

It was up to the UN then to decide if and when to resort to the ultimate enforcement tool....and of course we know that the invasion was taken against the UN's will...and to pre-empt your predictable response, we also know that in 1991 the UN did support the action against Iraq...finally, if we were there to support the UN's honor (laughable, since bush did his utmost to destroy the UN's honor), then we should also use the same approach with other nations who flaut the UN's will and resolutions...you know who I am talking about.

Al
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