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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24484)	5/28/2003 3:35:03 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

AFTER SADDAM KICKED THEM OUT!!! Saddam kicked nobody out. Inspectors left when they ran out of things to find. The only time they were kicked out is when Junior George kicked them out so he could seize the oil fields without witnesses.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24484)	5/28/2003 8:28:53 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Hawkmoon, Re: The UNSC had essentially abandoned the disarmament and inspection routines AFTER SADDAM KICKED THEM OUT!!! There you go again. Another lie. In 1998, in the run-up to Operation Desert Fox, Saddam Hussein was complaining bitterly that the C.I.A. had infiltrated the supposedly neutral UN inspection regime. He was, of course, correct in this assessment. The U.S. government has not denied the truth of this. In the weeks before the bombs fell in 1998, it was the U.S. government that requested that the UN inspectors abandon their work and leave Iraq, not, as you incorrectly state, at the behest of Saddam Hussein. Your argumentation seems to require a constant re-writing of history, i.e. lying, in order for your story to make sense. Doesn't this trouble you? BTW, you've defended the Department of Death in their preposterous "raid" to re-capture "Private Lynch" for the brainwashed masses in the U.S. media market. This AP/USA Today article should really be the nail in the coffin for your shallow and disingenuous defense of the indefensible Department of Death: usatoday.com Jerry Bruckheimer would be ashamed of the Department. Their story was too preposterous even for our corrupted media.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24484)	5/28/2003 8:43:48 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

We weren't talking about violence against Iraq. We were talking about violence against potential allies (e.g. France, Russia, etc.) in our war on Iraq. Try to stay focused. Here is your original statement: The only thing imperialistic about the US is it's belief that the only form of truly legitimate government is one that is accountable to its people through a democratic vote. Here is your revision: Did we threaten to invade them if they didn't support us? Since when is it criminal to use one's economic power to obtain cooperation, or to make a political statement? Tom