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To: tsigprofit who wrote (150)	11/19/2003 5:18:03 PM
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"show me a link to a case where Iraq attacked CONUS" Don't need one. Why? Here is something eloquently written on the subject................. <font size=4> But what about Bush's violation of international norms of behavior? Didn't he invade a sovereign country without U.N. approval? Isn't that enough to foster intense loathing of this reckless president? If that is your argument, then you also have to ask yourself why president Clinton wasn't roasted at the stake as well. After all, he also launched a war without U.N. approval - in Kosovo. He did so with even less U.N. approval than George W. Bush in Iraq. <font size=5>Bush, after all, had the 1991 U.N. cease-fire agreement, which Saddam violated, he had umpteen violations of U.N. resolutions committed by Saddam, and he had last December's 15 - 0 Security Council resolution demanding unfettered and immediate cooperation by Saddam - or else.<font size=4> In Kosovo, Clinton had nothing like this international support - and had the threats of vetoes by China and Russia. But he went ahead and bombed anyway. Where were the mass demonstrations then? Where was Clinton burned in effigy? Why didn't London have to shut down because of all the protests against the lawless Americans? Hmmm. In Kosovo, moreover, the Americans simply bombed from a great height. They didn't put their own sons and daughters at risk; they expended a fraction of the resources they are now sending to Iraq. Moreover, Milosevic's genocidal record was not as gruesome as Saddam's, he had not used weapons of mass destruction against his own population; and he had not tried to assassinate an American president. And yet that war was somehow deemed legitimate; and the current war beyond the pale. I have yet to find a single argument that persuasively shows why Kosovo was more legitimate under international norms than Iraq. Until we do hear such a case, it's fair to infer that some of this criticism is simply emotional and not rational. Or that it is bedeviled by so many double standards that it doesn't add up...... <font size=3> Hmmmmmm indeed! Message 19519443

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