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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (21036)	3/14/2003 9:25:20 PM
From: Vitas	Respond to of 25898

Give Saddam Hussein a last, last, last, last, last chance. Op/Ed - USA TODAY Confront Saddam now Fri Mar 7, 5:45 AM ET Add Op/Ed - USA TODAY to My Yahoo! Ken Adelman Give Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) a last, last, last, last, last chance. Oh, please. I thought that's what United Nations (news - web sites) Resolution 1441 was -- Iraq (news - web sites)'s ''final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations.'' At least that's what it said. But that was four months ago. Several ''final'' opportunities have come and gone since then, and another's proposed. Why? The Bush administration -- whose tough approach I heartily support -- made a whopping mistake waiting too long already. Soon after 9/11 was the time to liberate Iraq and protect America by ousting Saddam. The trauma of that day revealed two previously shrouded dangers to the United States: a growing global terrorist network eager to destroy us, and expanding arsenals for mass destruction. Saddam long has supported that terrorist network. Granted, some dispute aspects of this claim, but none disputes his relentless drive for weapons of mass destruction. Nor his hatred for America. Nor his savagery against his people. Waiting yet longer brings more danger, and problems. Saddam gets stronger by the day. While cashiering some missiles that the team of chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix must have tripped over, Saddam's scores of government laboratories and production facilities are enlarging their stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. His nuclear program -- or programs, as we uncovered three years after the Persian Gulf War (news - web sites) -- is surely proceeding apace. If we are to confront him -- as we must -- sooner is better. Later he's stronger. Second, every passing day spurs more anti-President Bush (news - web sites), anti-American fervor. A year ago, not one country would have resisted our liberating Iraq right after liberating Afghanistan (news - web sites). But we frittered away time. Waiting emboldens France to act like an important country. Others, such as Turkey, begin to doubt our determination and cover their own risks. Third, delaying further undercuts whatever credibility the United Nations still retains. With Syria prominent on the U.N. Security Council, Libya now becoming chair of the U.N. Human Rights Committee and Iraq soon chairing the U.N. Committee on Disarmament, the U.N. smacks of becoming the world's theater of the absurd. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) speak of a ''second resolution'' for the Security Council to consider next week. I wish they'd stop saying that. There is no ''second resolution'' being considered at the U.N. now. There was a second resolution in 1991. There's an 18th resolution there now. Should that pass next week, France and others will immediately push for a 19th. USA TODAY may well support that and other stalls the imaginative minds of diplomats may devise. Then, not just the U.N. Security Council, but all international efforts to face grave security dangers will become scenes in the theater of the absurd. Ken Adelman, former deputy U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and arms control director under President Reagan, co-hosts TechCentralStation.com, a public policy Web site. story.news.yahoo.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (21036)	3/15/2003 10:50:21 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Congratulations you are a casualty of propaganda you are now passing on jokes that insult a whole nation of people, because you don't like the way they voted in a democratic body. I hope you feel proud. you make me feel ill

To: Brumar89 who wrote (21036)	3/15/2003 11:40:28 AM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

it's small wonder France ("Frank-Reich") didn't care; french and germans are brothers and share a common origin. ever heard of Charlemagne? tlfq.ulaval.ca webcampus2.stthomas.edu webcampus2.stthomas.edu Charlemagne bartleby.com Holy Roman Empire bartleby.com only americans in their immense ignorance think their intervention is needed in the affairs of other countries (interventions always disastrous and delaying the inevitable, in the WWII case the inevitable was the unification of Europe that was delayed for half a century with a Cold War in the middle that could have been avoided if USA hadn't fought the wrong enemy). all they've done so far is intentionally carpet bomb civilians. the world would be a better place if americans left their bombers in the hangars. Germans great ethnic complex of ancient Europe, a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, N Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, N and central France, Lowland Scotland, and England. bartleby.com France, Germany plan dual citizenship washingtontimes.com ___ <<After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France." - Jay Leno>>