I am not attacking this nation, its President, its people, or its ideals. I am being scrupulously honest about facts, no matter whose nose gets out of joint because the facts are inconvenient.
Facts are stubborn things.
I don't remember you posting on Foreign Affairs Discussion Group back when Faultline ran it with an iron hand in a velvet glove. He was an excellent moderator, with only one flaw, he was prejudiced in favor of Democrats, and would ban people for speaking ill of President Clinton.
Nevertheless, Lindy posted there, Carranza posted there, D. Long posted there, I posted there, and some others who now post on this thread.
Some left because they couldn't take Faultline's bias, some left because they were banned, and a few of us (me, for one) left because Faultline had to quit for personal reasons.
All the facts I am telling you are there. They were the facts then, and facts don't change.
It may be asking too much to suggest you read that board but it's all there.
Lindy knows it, Carranza knows it, D. Long knows it. None of them are arguing with me.
I thought, yesterday, that you had seen the light and weren't arguing with me anymore.
We really, truly, did not get authorization to attack Iraq from the UN. It just didn't happen that way.
We really, truly, decided that we didn't need it.
We really, truly, used Saddam's alleged secret possession of WMD and secret plans to get more and worse WMD as the justification for attacking Iraq.
It was the first time in American history that we attacked a country which hadn't attacked us or any of our allies. We crossed a huge cultural, philosophical, legal, moral barrier to do so.
The justification was that "9/11 changed everything" and we shouldn't wait to be attacked because the WMD were too deadly and innocent people would die horrible deaths if we waited.
There were other reasons given, which basically boiled down to "Saddam is evil and should be thrown out and the Iraqi people liberated." But that was NOT the primary reason, and it wasn't the legal justification. |
