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To: Suma who wrote (13581)11/9/2004 4:51:25 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
westera2 in holding up Iraq violations of prior UN resolutions is using the right's fall back argument - the one used in the build up to war - to justify the war in Iraq.

I'm very familiar with this argument because I used it myself once or twice. I'm a politically active conservative who was reluctantly brought on side to support the Iraq war, frankly only so because both Blair and Powell supported it. I didn't believe both of them could be co-opted, but co-opted or fooled, clearly both of them were.

At the time I told my wife and political colleagues that I would be a vocal critic if the truth revealed that Bush, and the merry band of neoconservatives which surround him, deceived the public and the world.

And here we are.

Nothing in that argument justifies committing the country to war. Sanctions and inspections were working, and the US government (and UN) had plenty of legitimacy to ensure that sanctions and inspections would continue and even be improved.
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