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To: Elroy who wrote (223110)	3/9/2005 3:34:47 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572268

Re: I never said the US had the right to demand Saddam stand down. Well then just what the hell are we doing over in Iraq, besides creating vast illicit profits for well connected GOP hacks?

To: Elroy who wrote (223110)	3/9/2005 5:36:21 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572268

I still don't understand you. You made a point (I believe) that there was NOTHING Saddam could have done to prevent Iraq war 2. I think there were plenty of things he could have done to prevent Iraq War 2, and the most obvious (and first that came to my mind) was resign. He could have accepted political asylum in a friendly country, same as Liberia's Charles Taylor is doing in Nigeria today. Ba da bing - no Iraq war 2! My point was that, short of total capitulation by saddam, bush was going to war. Frankly i don't even see how saddam could have left power and avoided war for his country anyway, since the power vacuum alone would have meant a civil conflict we'd have to go quell...so right back to where we are today. But the main issue is that I dont' subscribe to this notion that we can go around the world demanding that leaders we don't like step down. And we surely have a responsibility to check facts and conduct due diligence before we take arms against another nation. And certainly have also a responsibility to do it with the backing of some world order, of which the UN is the current embodiment....or else you have wild west diplomacy in which the strong rule. Al