Posted on 05/23/2003 5:03:58 AM PDT by ruready4eternity
A fact-free assertion. Would there be justice in the universe, you'd be the first to suffer Iraqi terror in this country. You can hide behind the "law of averages" say you won't personally suffer, but if the association were more direct, I wonder if how much more protection you'd be advocating.
Please.
You continue to obfuscate as if only Democrats were paying attention. The problem I'm pointing out is your attempt to blur the difference between "only" in your original assertion, and "a" in your later back pedal attempt.
As far as your "key word" is concerned, "legal" is in both of your posts. As in "only legal" then later "a legal".
So, let's re-cap. You begin by asserting that WMD were the "only" legal justification for invasion. After challenges by me, and others, that the breaking of ceasefire agreements provided additional "legal" justification, you assert that WMD were "a legal" justification.
After calling on me to be "honorable", you pitch out another red herring.
"Once again, there is a significant difference between 'sole' and 'legal.'"
A simple question. Have you participated on this site under aliases other than "LivingLarge"?
An assertion you can not prove.
No, but an assertion you can quickly disproved by you offering a supporting fact. It can be inferred by the fact that you don't that you can't.
LOL. Ya know, I used to take potshots at every Canada-story . . . but I've learned there's a lotta Canadian FReepers who hate Cretin Chretien just as much as we do.
Besides, the jackass makes a fool of himself so often it was like shooting fish in a barrel. There's no sport in it any longer.
All him and his administration are doing is driving the wedge deeper and deeper and, in the long run, it's the Canadian people who will have to pick up the tab.
Well, either way, the old European/Democrat/Socialist mantra of "Give the inspections time" should apply here. One has to ask why Saddam did not simply deliver the proof of the destruction of the known WMDs, thus putting him on the road to full restoration of his control of the country, and still sticking a finger in Bush's eye. He could have had it all. It just doesn't make sense for him to do all this when he would be cutting off his own nose to do it.
As for the "why Iraq and not (insert despotic regime here) question: I can only say that every journey begins with but a single step. Most of the countries you might think of usually screw over their own citizens within their own borders, until they collapse of their own weight, and the leaders loot the country and go to live in France. Iraq is a special case, as it controls a large portion of the planet's oil reserves, which we do have to care about since the greenie weenies and their Dem accomplices won't let us go after our own oil. That, and a demostrated willingness to use the WMDs he had, and a deep desire to reclaim the "lost provinces" of Iraq, which Hussein seems to think included most of the Middle East. In a word, I think deterrence and containment were working. Saddam only used WMD against foes not similarly armed.
In what way were they working? There were NO inspectors in Iraq, he was using the "oil for food" program to enrich himself (and France, Germany and Russia) and who knows what else, not feed the people, who were the only ones suffering, and there was a successful campaign of making us look like the bad guy in that scenario. As Hitler and many other dictators have proven over and over again, waiting and appeasement are signs of weakness to them, which they exploit at will.
WMDs or not, the humanitarian aspects of the liberation make it all worthwhile. I still think the long-term consequences may prove to be greater than the benefits.
I stand by my statement, especially considering the "successes" of the UN "peacekeepers" in Rwanda and now, in the Congo. Look at what the bestial Taliban did to people in Afghanistan, and the world just stood back and watched, much as they did with the Jews in pre-WWII in the 1930s. Some say we are doing it again with the rabid antisemitism of today's Europe.
I guess we will just have to hope for the best and wait and see.
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