Posted on 12/01/2004 12:29:58 PM PST by rface
Dear Editor, the Tribune:
Some folks are asking: "Why is the nation so divided on the Iraq war while it so solidly was behind fighting World War II, which required much greater sacrifice? Is the current generation of Americans less resolute and patriotic than the previous generation?" The correct answer to this question is that America did not start World War II. Nazi Germany did by sinking our supply ships in open seas as well as in coastal waters, and Japan did by attacking Pearl Harbor. It was they, not us, who started the war.
Any nation that starts a war, regardless of justifications or excuses, is the aggressor and cannot be condoned; otherwise, the world would be in perpetual turmoil and misery. Not only does world opinion go against aggressors; nations that start wars also face internal opposition, especially in a free and democratic country.
The war in Iraq is totally different. Not a single Iraqi was involved in attacking us on Sept. 11, 2001, or in any previous attack of our troops or citizens overseas. President George W. Bush started the war, acting on the false premise that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Did we re-elect President Bush because we believe he was right in starting the Iraq war? Maybe we re-elected him because the person who got our nation into such a mess owes it to us to get us out and to restore the nation’s honor and reputation.
Dr. Henry Liu (profile at link)
address deleted - but available at Tribune Link
Professor Emeritus
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO
E-mail: LiuH@missouri.edu
Not a single Iraqi was involved in attacking us on Sept. 11, 2001, or in any previous attack of our troops or citizens overseas ....
I think firing serface to air missles at our pilots who were charged with enforcing the "No Fly Zones" since the end of the first Gulf War is considered an attack on our troops --- and I think that any Americans who were killed by those "Palestinian Homicide Bombers" - (who were funded by Iraq by-the-way) constitutes an attack on our citizens.
I wonder if this Tiawanese Prof. would want the Good Ol' USA to come to his homeland's defense if his little island was invaded by China? ---- probably not
It's all the same country anyway, particularly to Moslems who pine for resurrection of the Islamic Caliphate.
No Afghanis were involved in 9/11 either. Does the good doctor believe that we shouldn't have gone to Afghanistan?
"Any nation that starts a war, regardless of justifications or excuses, is the aggressor and cannot be condoned;"
This line says everything you need to know about this guy!
Even a 'justified war' cannot be condoned!
Sorta like someone attempting to cut up your family with a chainsaw and you put a 45 between his eyes!
Not justified according to this lame-0!
If Taiwan develops, or China thinks they're developing, WMD does that give China the green light to invade and remove the potential threat before it becomes imminent?
Why should the illegitimate government of China have any rights over the legitimate one?
Not a single Iraqi was involved in attacking us on Sept. 11, 2001, or in any previous attack of our troops or citizens overseas.
In addition to shooting at our pilots almost daily, they openly funded international terrorism that killed Americans and citizens of our allies, and they attempted to assassinate a former US President.
Dr. Henry Liu is an ill-informed, though strongly opinionated idiot. That is always an unwelcome combination.
That's right, but it isn't the point. The bluster of Saddam toward his neighbors such as Kuwait, Iran, and Israel went on for years. Talk of Rain of Fire and who owns the 19th province and Basra is bellicose even for an attorney such as Saddam. We stepped in for not entirely altruistic reasons, since Saddam's moves would eventually start costing us big. Congress should have declared war rather than just approved funding, but they didn't have to declare war since the ennabling docs already existed.
"Not a single Iraqi was involved in attacking us on Sept. 11, 2001, or in any previous attack of our troops or citizens overseas."
The lame leftist arguement always convieniently leaves out the fact that the first WTC attack in '93 DID have Iraqi's involved.
They use the 'overseas' description to avoid pointing to the facts.
OK... Algeria and Morocco did not attack us at Pearl Harbor. Yet that's where the US went first to fight in WWII.
We go where the enemy is. Since there is no country called "Al Quadia," we have to go to where its members and those who financially support it are. Therefore, Iraq.
I'm guessing Dr. Dumbass here, doesn't actually count shooting at US Pilots on a regular basis an "attack of our troops"
what are the details here?
What makes the Taiwanese government the legitimate government of China? It was Republicans that stabbed Taiwan in the back on the world stage in order to embrace Red China.
My question remains, "If Taiwan develops, or China thinks they're developing, WMD does that give China the green light to invade and remove the potential threat before it becomes imminent?"
It would under the Bush Doctrine, it seems. Same if Brazil thinks Uruguay were doing so.
So Israel was the aggressor and guilty party in the 1967 Six-Day War? Nonsense. Yet another simplistic, idiotic opinion from a pseudo-intellectual.
You mean they weren't shooting at our planes?
They were ya' know?
Yopu guys have ALL missed the point. We got involved in Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not follow the U.N rulings on weapons searches (I don't recall the resolution #s, sorry. There were a few of them.) The legality of using force to make Saddam comply was *Legal*. What never made any sense was, why the Russians, French, and Germans who supported the resolutions would not support *enforcing* them. Then the 'Oil for Food' scandal broke and everything started making sense again...
What the "good Doctor" fails to understand is the basic facts surrounding the war.
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