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To: i-node who wrote (163711)	3/10/2003 5:50:22 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573889

Others are not so quick to give the UN veto power over our foreign policy. But it is unjust, unwise, arrogant, to go the UN, ask support and permission to do something as grave as invade another country, and proclaim that you are going to do it anyway, regardless of what that institution says. That's just wrong, and it paints a scary picture of the US_lone_superpower. It's understandable that other nations will band together and put up resistance. It's bad policy. ..bringing democracy to Iraq is essential to eliminate the so-called "undeterrables" -- those who would attack us as on 9/11. But Iraq has not produced "undeterrables", as a lady in the audience said in her question to Tom. Those have come from other nearby societies, who are presumably "less" oppressed than the Iraqis and whose regimes we actively support. We have targeted the three nations who did not contribute a single "undeterrable" to the Sept 11 attack, while actively defended the countries that did. Al