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To: Solon who wrote (41183)	11/13/2005 2:05:08 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Yes. That has to do with values. It is civilized NOT to impose values on others except in self defense. It is still debatable whether or not this invasion was in self defense. OK. So far no WMD have been found. The evidence presented for their existence before the war was weak. BUT: How can you consider intervention in Rwanda justified if intervention in Iraq was not? Or intervention in the Serbia-Bosnia mess? Were the Europeans right in watching genocide in their backyards for 5 years and doing nothing? If Hitler had done nothing but burn Jews, would France, the UK, and Canada be justified in just watching? I guess Canada decided that for Canada to invade would not be in self defense. They may have been wrong. But it was in accordance with what we value in freedom and democracy. Canada might be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time. (Not that, if the US is wrong, THAT would be the first time either. Our trail of mistakes and broken promises brings tears to the eyes.) Even if we had had a Conservative leader in power we would still have considered our position with respect. There are a great many insane nations which live with primitive policies. Most of them are being "welched" on by you as well as by us. OK. I'll buy that. There's genocide under way in Darfur right now and no one give a ****. The same is or soon may be true of Uzbekistan. So you as an individual nation have to pick your fights. You (and we) lack the manpower and the resources to solve all the world's problems. But where's the UN? Isn't this where they come in? Weren't they formed to deal with problems like this rather than make the Secretary General's family rich through corruption? I can respect the position Canada took. It definitely was a murky, questionable situation. But we're in it now and you're not and much the luckier you. In addition, Canada, unlike France, does NOT have a history of stabbing us in the back at every opportunity. You've earned the right to an honest difference of opinion.

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