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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (7908)	2/14/2003 12:23:49 AM
From: macavity	Respond to of 10157

If Saddam goes into exile he should be given the Noble Prize for Peace. If Yasser Arafat, and Henry Kissinger (Dr Death) can get it then Saddam gets my vote. Then this whole situation can de-escalate, and the world should re-consider this whole pre-emptive attack nonsense. It should be stated that no nation has the right to pre-emptive strike. Taking out terrorists with a predator drone and hellfire does not count. (pre-emptive) Attacks on known terrorists can be justified but against nation states - no. When Mossad were taking out PLO terrorists one-by-one they had my support, but when Israel starts flying Apache gunships down streets and levelling whole blocks that is something else. Imagine the outcry in Boston if the UK government did the same thing in Belfast after a mainland bombing in England. We all know there is a difference between the terrorist and the groups he claims to represent. Sure these groups may be sympathetic but targetting them is wrong. Ireland gave covert help to the IRA, but if the UK government parked its aircraft carriers in the Irish sea with an expeditionary force, then I bet that the Kennedys and the Irish American contingent would (quite rightfully) complain. The Bushistas arguments are fast losing support IMO. N Korea, India and Pakistan have all weakened these arguments with a spectacular Reductio ad absurdum. Unfortuneatly with Proffesor Rummy's logic being used I am not betting on a sensible outcome. A greater attempt of consistency of policy needs to be made, than is being done at present. The world needs to go back to the you hit me and my big brother (US, Russia, or China) will nuke you. Rather than what we have at the moment, where it is everyone for themselves. The US (Bush and Rumsfield) need to realise that their arguments are those of a bully. Target individuals - yes ; peoples - no! -macavity