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To: epicure who wrote (175915)	11/27/2005 11:22:07 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not playing "gotcha" at all, eleutheria.. Just stating legal facts under International Law. What I'm saying is that Bush acted under the complete authority of the UN Charter and previous resolutions to finalize Iraq's compliance of both UNSC 678 and 687 (the cease fire). Let's face it it.. there was nothing compelling us to launch an invasion of Kuwait in 1991, since Kuwait had ALREADY been occupied for 6 months. Did we HAVE to go to war then (Jan, 1991)? Couldn't we have waited another year to let "diplomacy work"? And if we were willing to wait another year, then why not wait another 13.. or maybe 20 years?? Now ask yourself what your neighborhood would be like if the local cops (or sheriffs) adopted the same attitude about executing arrest warrants or court judgements against violators? What people tend to DELIBERATELY forget is that we spent 13 years bombing and sanctioning Iraq for violating the cease fire accords of UNSC 687 prior to UNSC 1441. And that for 5 years Saddam's government REFUSED to cooperate with the UNSC to resume inpections that would lead to a lifting of sanctions. That's the "important point" that HAS BEEN lost in all of this. UNSC 1441 was passed unanimously by ALL members of the UNSC (inluding France, Russia, and China). They ALL declared Iraq had violated the UN resolution, just as they had violated UNSC 660 and 678 in 1990. The UNSC authorized use of "all necessary means" to force Iraq to comply with those resolutions. So the war WAS LEGAL, regardless of what anyone else cares to assert. Sorry.. not aiming this at you personally.. Just restating the facts of the matter. That the UN, the Democrats, and Saddam's regime were ALL part of what led us to re-commencing hostilities on a larger scale with the intent of bringing down an intransigent goverment that refused to pay heed to 13 years worth of binding UN resolutions. If we had NOT done this, the UN would have continued to be castrated as an organization and nothing more than just another toothless committee of corrupt political hacks who have nothing better to do than trying to get out of NYC parking tickets.. ;0) Hawk