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To: hueyone who wrote (149059)	10/21/2002 8:13:18 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Huey, the debate here, if you look beyond GST's ever-moving goal posts, was over whether further military action against Iraq in 1991 would have violated international law or was explicitly prohibited by UN resolution, not over whether we should or should not have marched to Baghdad. Since Powell, Schwarzkopf and Bush #41 decided against marching to Baghdad, it is not surprising that they would define the mission as having been accomplished. The question here was simply whether it would have been illegal and it seems abundantly clear, based on the UN charter, the actual UN resolutions that authorized "all necessary means", and established rights of nations (and given the failure of anyone here to show otherwise), that it would not have been illegal. Regards, Bob

To: hueyone who wrote (149059)	10/21/2002 8:33:51 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

I heard Schwarzkopf speak recently. I am not sure what he said in his book. But while speaking he said the US did not really have any choice but to stop once the UN mission of removing Iraqis from Kuwait was accomplished. I believe he used the phrase "we had to stop at the border" (although this would have been a euphemism) -- but whatever the exact phrase, he made it clear that the US would have been acting unilaterally if an invasion of Iraq and deposing of Saddam took place. Bob thinks we could have just walked right into Baghdad and shot Saddam with no questions asked about what gives us the right to do such a thing. Thank you for shedding a little light on what has been a rather fruitless discussion.