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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (14175)	3/1/2003 7:15:36 AM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 25898

PT re: Are you in favor of selective enforcement of the law? You must be, because the US had repeatedly ignored the UN Resolutions against Israel. can you tell us why is it ok with UN when Jordanians slaughter polistinians and it is not ok when Israel is fighting for it's survival? Can you tell us why is it that so many arabs, including arafat himself, who are not from palestine but pretend to belong there? Can you tell us why it was not really the case before Jews made a garden out of a tiny speck of desert? Can you tell us why is that so many resolutions passed against Israel's treatment of arabs and not against any arab countries while arabs have more rights in Israel than in any other arab country? Can you tell us why Khadafi is currently defining the human rights for UN? re: was a good idea. I don't fault Bush for this. But he shot hiw wad too early Can you tell us how that good idea would work if Sadam is waiting for very last minute to do anything at all? Can you tell us how far "too early" would take us with Sadam? Re: That war was completely sanction by the UN, the present situation is not. Can you tell us what UN has to do with US military forces? Can you tell us why it would not be right for Bush senior to tell UN - if you sanctioned it you fight it, I am not going to send American kids to die? re: This kind of situation will only worsen as Al Qaeda will use the Iraqi invasion to recruit more terrorists Can you tell us why fear (of terrorists) should dictate our foreign policy? Can you tell us if you are confusing US with France? re: Please give me a reason to go to war that is not based on speculation? I do not much care for UN but even UN concluded that Iraq is not cooperating while it was not just cooperation that but also a burdon of proof is completely lies with Iraq. Iraq's violation of peace treaty of 91 is equivalent to Iraq's proclaiming war against US. Can you tell us why is it wrong for US to fight those who openly proclaim war against US?

To: PartyTime who wrote (14175)	3/1/2003 7:49:02 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 25898

Are you in favor of selective enforcement of the law? You must be, because the US had repeatedly ignored the UN Resolutions against Israel. All UN resolutions aren't the same. The resolutions on Iraq are under chapter 7. Israel has had no chapter 7 resolutions. Military pressure to reopen the inspection process was a good idea. I don't fault Bush for this. I'm glad to see you're open-minded enough to give Bush credit for something. Some of the troops here aren't gonna like this. It clashes with the Bush as fascistic "Hitlerhito" view prevalent here. I'd expect some PM's pointing out your mistake. But he shot hiw wad too early, commiting too many forces to the region. He should have diligently, and secretly even, lobbied other UN nations to also commit troops for the express purpose of getting the inspection process back in place. Why should people die for his tactical mistake? We've been trying to get allies to commit troops and have done so to some extent. It's pretty hard to keep things like that a secret. Restarting inspections required a credible threat not just a sham show of force. Lastly, I will point out inspections aren't the goal. Disarmament is the goal. Renewed inspections are merely an opportunity for Saddam to disarm peacefully which he has declined.

To: PartyTime who wrote (14175)	3/1/2003 2:15:37 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Respond to of 25898

Military pressure to reopen the inspection process was a good idea. I don't fault Bush for this. We will see....UP to now: 1) Blix convince Iraq that inspection could this time put an end to this catastrophic embargo. I think this was the reason for accepting re-opening this endless inspection. 2) Excepted for some few lost empty shells, not very much have been found and we have never seen a proof that the so many litre of anthrax or else really exist. 3) In order to prove that inspection work they been extremely hard in the missile affair. In my opinion, Iraq did not fail to comply to the 93 miles limit because tests did not include guiding system witch would have reduce the range. Anyway, less than 20 extra miles is too small to order destroying all the missile and everything to design and build them. 4) Forcing scientist to be interviewed without giving them possibility to have protection against forged lie attributed to them is an other catch 20/20. 5) Having U-2 flying over there head while US is still declaring they will attack no matter what, must have been hard to take. Is Blix finally just a tool to help the USA gathering info necessary for the already decided blow-out of Baghdad? 6) 7) ...