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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (159588)3/24/2005 12:39:33 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
So, diplomacy and sanctions are useless except as a prelude to war?

My oh my, you've laid your cards on the table...and my friend it's a losing hand.

War should be used a last resort. It's not a matter of convenience. Saddam, as bad as he was to his own people...and we supported him while he was being cruel to his own people...was never a threat to us. He was contained.

But that said the people of Iraq were oppressed, and we needed to do something about that. A concerted effort of diplomacy backed by the threat of military intervention was bypassed for a more convenient and expedient move to the invasion.

So what that it increases the risk for terrorism, shatters the unity of the western nations and causes the deaths of thousands and thousands and thousands. Do the deaths of these innocents in your removal plan enter your calculations? Or do you simply rename them collateral damage and declare "we don't do body counts"?

This invasion did not meet the test of the Powell Doctrine. A pre-emptive war, on the drawing boards before 9-11, and taken off the shelf behind a flurry of lies and misdirects.

Sorry this war was immoral as conducted, and therefore can never be pointed to as a success.

Orca
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