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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (15889)	10/22/2002 10:59:31 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

My contention is that international law is a misnomer, as already stated, and depends on voluntary compliance rather than enforcement. From that standpoint, we cannot count on Iraq not to attack based on international law, so why should we wait to be attacked(?), when that seems to be intrinsic to his goal of accumulating bigger arsenals of WMDs,and more powerful delivery systems. Frankly, whether we were targeted or not, the virtual certainty that he would use such weapons against Israel, and therefore initiate Holocaust II, is enough, I think, to sandbag him. The comparison of our use of the atomic bomb as an alternative to an even bloodier invasion of the Japanese Home Islands; making an issue out of targeting civilians when both the Germans and Japanese began the practice, as in the Blitz and the Rape of Nanking, and the Allies thought that they could not be allowed to do so with impunity; making much of counter- population targeting, when it was a surer means of assuring that nuclear weapons would not be employed; comparing the funding of the Contras, who functioned as guerillas using irregular tactics, to terrorists (I am not even sure what else you might have in mind); and not complying with the biowarfare treaty because we knew it was being ignored by our adversaries----- to use all of this crap to argue some sort of moral equivalence is inane and offensive........