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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: michael97123 who wrote (5149)	3/11/2003 11:11:51 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Michael. IMO. I think one of the things going on is that france, germany, and Russia combining efforts to hand the USA a humiliating defeat in world public opinion. They can't do it by military force but it looks as though they will succeed through the UN. Our own media is helping these foreign powers in the defeat of the USA, sadam supporters and anti-Prez Bush are also aiding these foreign powers in the defeat of USA. If these foreign powers...I like to refer to as the enemy....who support sadam, mugabe and scum like them win this war of public opinion it will be open season on the USA by any 2 bit scum dictator in the world. Think of the humiliation if the USA has to bring all those troops home....A win for sadam....The horrors of Sept. 11 may seem small compared to what may await us in the future from the real enemy radical islam. You ask why don't those countries who appose war with iraq supply troops and support to keep pressure on sadam for an extended time? IMO those countries want complete defeat of the USA in the world of public opinion and they will use whatever weapon they can find even sadam. Course the fact the those countries have signed multi billion dollar deals with sadam for oil contracts just don't seem to matter much at all.

To: michael97123 who wrote (5149)	3/11/2003 2:49:26 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

If, UN approval is a requirement for war along with inspections, why dont potential vetoers offer to place their fair share of troops in the desert as inspections drag on over the spring and summer months? I have heard nothing of such an offer. Nope.. I certainly don't see France and Germany sending troops to Iraq's border to back up their plans towards giving Iraq their next to the last, and final (maybe) chance... I'd feel a lot better if they were willing to send their army there as a ramification of choosing to veto the US from enforcing these UN resolutions. But that's all aside.. As I was discussing with Zonder on another thread, had it not been for Russia boycotting the UNSC vote related to opposing N. Korea's invasion of the South in 1950, there would never have been a UN led military force opposing it.. That was the last time the UN ever directly opposed a totalitarian regime. By permitting the USSR, and then Bejing (1971) to block such votes, the UN has been castrated as a force for opposing tyranny, and spreading democratic values.. Hawk