For the umpteenth time, the Iraqi voting has incredibly irregularities. You do understand that don't you? Those 7 votes by a single individual don't bother you? Why is that? Don't you believe in true democracy or are you fine with just the sham version of it.
Remember the good old days when the Dems were signing up dead people to vote in Mayor Daly's Chicago?
How about those hanging chads? Or passing out whiskey bottles to people who voted the way you wanted..
All of this happened in our country, and some still does..
But considering that the last election held in Iraq under Saddam resulted in his being elected by a 99.9% margin, I think there's some progress being made..
Apparently you want immediate perfection in Iraq.. It should all be incorruptible and above reproach, despite the fact that it has NEVER been that way in this country..
You're obviously a pessimist seeing only the bad.. Whereas I see that there anything positive in this country is better than it was before...
You dont' think there wasn't terrorism and killing in this country prior the Coalition invasion?
Dude.. there are some VERY EVIL people in this country. And I can guarantee you that they are going to kill people whenever they think they can get away with (and many could care less)..
You think we have sickos in the States? You wouldn't believe the amount of child porn that gets pulled off of the computers of these so-called puritanical "Mujahidin".. OR how many of them are either bi-sexual, or pedophiles... It's amazing.. and it's something that will never make the news because it's "demeaning" to the prisoners"....
Don't you get it? Don't you understand? This is human nature. You topple a government and you create a power vacuum.
Well, I do seem to recall that the previous administration signed the "1998 Iraq Regime Change Act"
All Bush was doing was carrying out the will of the previous elected congress and intent of the previous Administration that concurred that Saddam needed to be overthrown.
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IRAQ ACT OF 1998
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Iraq Liberation Act of 1998'.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, starting an eight year war in which Iraq employed chemical weapons against Iranian troops and ballistic missiles against Iranian cities.
(2) In February 1988, Iraq forcibly relocated Kurdish civilians from their home villages in the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds.
(3) On March 16, 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurdish civilian opponents in the town of Halabja, killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds and causing numerous birth defects that affect the town today.
(4) On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and began a seven month occupation of Kuwait, killing and committing numerous abuses against Kuwaiti civilians, and setting Kuwait's oil wells ablaze upon retreat.
(5) Hostilities in Operation Desert Storm ended on February 28, 1991, and Iraq subsequently accepted the ceasefire conditions specified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991) requiring Iraq, among other things, to disclose fully and permit the dismantlement of its weapons of mass destruction programs and submit to long-term monitoring and verification of such dismantlement.
(6) In April 1993, Iraq orchestrated a failed plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993, visit to Kuwait.
(7) In October 1994, Iraq moved 80,000 troops to areas near the border with Kuwait, posing an imminent threat of a renewed invasion of or attack against Kuwait.
(8) On August 31, 1996, Iraq suppressed many of its opponents by helping one Kurdish faction capture Irbil, the seat of the Kurdish regional government.
(9) Since March 1996, Iraq has systematically sought to deny weapons inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) access to key facilities and documents, has on several occasions endangered the safe operation of UNSCOM helicopters transporting UNSCOM personnel in Iraq, and has persisted in a pattern of deception and concealment regarding the history of its weapons of mass destruction programs.
(10) On August 5, 1998, Iraq ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM, and subsequently threatened to end long-term monitoring activities by the International Atomic Energy Agency and UNSCOM.
(11) On August 14, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-235, which declared that `the Government of Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations' and urged the President `to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations.'
(12) On May 1, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-174, which made $5,000,000 available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as organization, training, communication and dissemination of information, developing and implementing agreements among opposition groups, compiling information to support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes, and for related purposes.
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The path to regime change was started LONG before Bush came to office...
So get over it and accept the fact that the Clinton administration and Democrats who were in charge of the Senate in October, 2002, and voted for the authorization to use force are just as responsible.
Hawk |
