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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KLP who wrote (154755)12/29/2004 11:38:00 AM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
KLP, my silly "if we hadn't gone into Iraq Saddam might have taken the oil revenues and funded a cure for aids" post was simply an effort to respond to your own panic ridden "if we hadn't gone into Iraq" post. I'm surprised you weren't able to figure that out.

My point was simply that anyone can make up "if" stories to justify anything; the real question is what evidence of motive, means and execution will buttress such claims. It takes all three before you can make a reasonable argument for a valid threat and a necessary, defensive war that intelligent people will accept. In the case of Saddam Hussein there is NOTHING substantial to support the doomsday scenario that posters like yourself present with the cry, "we had to do it before the sky fell...." That's why the same people who don't seem to give a shit about most people in the world now claim to have so much feeling for the Iraqi people that they were willing to go to war and kill them to "save them." Ed
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