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[Steel Wolf]

One thing which has been stressed too little in recent weeks is that it is Iraq's choices that have brought war closer. The debate in Britain and Europe continues to focus largely on what America is doing and why. Too often, it is overlooked that it is Iraq which remains, at the eleventh hour, in defiance of the will of its region and the wider world.

The reason for this is that we can be reasoned with, and our enemies cannot. We listen to protesters, encourage debate, and speak out contstantly. Our enemies crush protesters with tanks, silence debate, and imprison or kill those who would speak out.

Does that make us better than our enemies? You bet. I welcome each and every protester I hear, for just that reason.

[Monti Cello]

Both Bush and Blair could have emphasised more just how bad Saddam's republic of fear has been for his people and the extent to which ending it is a desirable end in itself.

Oh my. The chutzpah here you could cut with a chainsaw.

Why should the US President be doing the job of the media? Bush has stated the obvious. The job of getting the detailed story out of Iraq is something we used to entrust to the journalists. The 'no war for oil' hypothesis is totally a figment of the leftist imagination, led by publications like the Observer.

The rapid flipflop by the establishment left is echoing 'round the globe. They are hustling to get on the W train as it's leaving the station.

[Optimist]

(Guardian/Observer all but flips over to pro war)

In the words of Frank Barone....

HOLY CRAP!

[pariah]

The prospects for any successor Iraqi regime will be much rosier if it is seen to have come into being through a UN mandate derived from a very substantial majority of members, rather than bilateral Anglo-American action.

Oh, right. The magical UN Mandate, conferring unimpeachable legitimacy on the fledgling state and the added blessing of conformity to 'international law'. What a pile of rubbish! Clearly, nay axiomatically, whatever state emerges post-Saddam will have whatever legitimacy the people subject to it confer upon it. A stamp of approval from Beijing and her motley following of third-world rabble is meaningless.

It might be difficult for some to accept a sole veto from Beijing autocrats, for example, on action which might restore democracy to another nation.

Not difficult at all, really.

[Hugin]

Sounds like they are backtracking pending the release of the much ballyhooed "smoking gun" Colin Powell promised to produce soon.

[Momaw Nadon]

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