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| (...) Here are a few thoughts--not sure how feasible they are, and some will require greater diplomacy than is currently available to the administration. 1. Get rid of Bush. His handling of this entire debacle has been nightmarishly inept and (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Snipped bunches. Some I agree with (the venality of leaders everywhere, but certainly in the US) and some I don't (it's not just "about the oil!")... focusing on one bit. (...) What I'm not seeing the current participants in this debate providing is (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Mmmmm. This green light in your mind that allows you to do awful things with dubious grounds, and with scant care for human life. Not the green light of well thought out, systematically supported, equitable and respected authorisation I think, (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Is that a rhetorical question? We are actively engaged in the process of securing a sovereign nation's natural resources for our own benefit, and this is exacerbated by the fact that our hegemonic military presence in that country is intended (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Clinton didn't propose an unprovoked invasion in defiance of the UN, and he didn't endorse the removal of inspectors before their job was done, and he certainly didn't advocate the murder of 100,000 Iraqi civilians. If removing him was the (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) No, there really doesn't seem to be much support in any quarter. And the remaining pro war camp is much quieter and harder to draw (apart from the determined political apologist rearguard, and the shrill cries of the mindless faithful), (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Please point me to where Resolution 114 mentions Iraqi freedom. That may (possibly, eventually) be a consequence, but it is NOT what Americans are dying for. ROSCO (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Look, even Clinton acknowledged that SH would need to be deposed eventually. Removing him was the bottom line, even without the threat of WMDs. His mere existence was a "green light" in my mind. JOHN (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) What you seem to have never internalized is that we went into Iraq for one reason, and one reason only-- to depose SH's evil regime. We issued an ultimatum for him leave or we would make him. He didn't, and we did. He was the threat, he was (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) And not just farce, but expressly known to be false, months before Dubya invaded Iraq unprovoked. Dave! (20 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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