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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (195561)8/7/2006 11:30:55 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<other means" that were ACTIVELY PURSUED in a failed attempt to obtain Saddam's compliance in abiding by the terms of the cease-fire>

But the US did not have a cease fire with Iraq. The reason for the invasion was for the US to rid Iraq of WMD because we said the UN wouldn't do it so we would take matters into our own hands -- only there were no WMD so the rationale morphed into "well this is the only way to bring democracy to Iraq". You can't have it both ways. We are not the UN and we badly needed a rationale for invading a sovereign country that did not attack us, so after the fact we chose to reinvent the reason to make it sound noble and to cover for the fact that we were dead wrong on our original excuse for the invasion.

I am frequently asked "how else could we have gotten rid of Saddam and promoted democracy" This is a question only an extremist would need answered.
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