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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (204494)	9/27/2006 8:57:26 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A green light from the USA is a great temptation - Saddam fell for it from April Glaspie who you would understand wasn't making it up on the spot [poor sucker that he was]. The Shah fell for it too. Stupid Maurice.. simply stupid BS.. If I'm drunk and I walk past a cop who doesn't stop me from getting in my car, does that mean he's given me a "green light" to drive drunk? Should I interpret his indifference as approval?? If you don't stop me from touching your car in the parking lot, does that mean I have a "green light" to break in and steal it?? If I walk up to you with fisted hands and you don't warn me against hitting you, does that mean I have a "green light" to beat the crap out of you?? Stop this madness of absolving governments, and certainly despotic ones, from being responsible for their aggressions. Stop making excuses for tyrants!! No one, without the appropriate international resolutions (under Chapter VII of the UN Charter) has an internationally recognized "right" to unilaterally invade another country. They can do it anyway, but they have no merit in claiming that some other country or organization gave them a "green light" by falling to confront them..