Hawk, there are those who get very upset for the US support for ISrael "no matter what" policy. To me it sounds very similar to your as well as some in the US who sound like you with regard to France and their support for Saddam.
Well, I'm not ashamed to support a democracy, even with all of its warts..
But I would be ashamed to support a totalitarian state that had killed upwards of 300,000 of it's own people, invaded other nations and brutalized them, and used chemical weapons against innocent civilians..
But apparently you feel little obligation to protect and support the only democracy that exists in the region and every obligation to support brutal regimes.
They are slowly capitulating starting with allowing Canada to bid for Iraqi contracts, then allowing the UN to work with the Iraqis with regards to the transfer of power.
Capitulating? Did Bush travel to Canada, or did the Canadian PM travel to Washington?
As for the UN, since when did the US prevent them from operating in Iraq? I seem to recall something about a bombing incident chasing them all out to Cyprus...
Something that hasn't yet happened to US forces...
So is there anything the UN has done, since the end of the war, that we can be proud of?
As for "taming the bull", who's to say that it won't take the form of appeasing Bush?
I don't think Bush was asking for too much... If many of these dissident nations had gone along, there likely would not be nearly the resistance in Iraq as currently exists...
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