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To: Neocon who wrote (151379)	11/10/2004 12:41:40 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<it absurd to observe the sovereignty of a brutal dictatorship.> In Iraq, there is a dictatorship -- our dictatorship. Nobody invited us. Nobody elected us. We went to Iraq and killed people until they stopped fighting -- although it turns out that they never stopped fighting, and the fighting continues to escalate as we speak. We have no authority except for the power to force people into submission by killing them or threatening to kill them -- and it seems there are plenty of people unwilling to submit to our use of force. Only a fool sends the US military into a battle with a cloud over the mission -- and this mission has had a cloud over it from day one. Only a fool dismisses the role of legitimacy from consideration of the outcome. We have the outcome that is expected when there is no legitimacy -- the stench of death with no end in sight. Saddam did not do that to us. The insurgents did not do that to us. Our own political leadership moved ahead and scoffed at the idea that we needed a clear mission and scoffed at the idea that we needed a meaningful alliance and scoffed at the idea that our legitimacy could ever be questioned. Now we watch our children die. We can only wonder at the numbers of those we sent our children to kill. And you offer glib one liners about how we don't need to worry about triflings like the need to respect the national sovereignty of other nations.