Now, here's your homework in case you're still reading, Junior: How many people would have died at the hands of the Hussein regime in Iraq between March 2003 and today? I'll lay you odds, based on past atrocities, it'd be a considerably higher number than 12,000. How many would have starved to death, or died from disease, because moneys from the UN Oil-for-Fraud program that should have gone for food and medicine went into the pockets of corrupt bastards around the world instead?
No WMDs? Oh, those binary-agent-capable shells that the Polish forces keep tripping over, those don't count? The traces of Sarin that keep turning up, what about those? And y'know, even then, may I remind you, oh Carver of Clogs, that it wasn't our place to prove that he had them, it was Hussein's place to prove that he didn't. The United Nations resolutions gave us UN authority to go in there and clean house, not that we really needed or wanted it. But your EU friends, primarily France, Germany, and your next-door neighbor Belgium, were making too damn many euros off selling Saddam arms and getting kickbacks from the Oil-for-Fraud program.
We, the United States, with the Coalition of the Willing by our side, showed the UN to be the ineffective collection of fourth-rate tinpot dictators that it really is.
Oh yeah, one more thing. I find it amusing to get lectured on "civil discourse" and "free exchange of opinions" by a Dutch Green...does the name Pim Fortuyn ring a bell? The leftist whackjob fellow traveler of yours that gunned him down sure as hell didn't believe in a "free exchange of opinions."
And now, it's time for your stint as a cat toy. Beauregard...eviscerate.
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