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Re: What about the first?
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Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:42:17 GMT
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Pedro Silva wrote:
> After Turkey's invocation of NATO's article 4, one other article cries
> loudly that there can be no NATO support of US intervention in Iraq:
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> http://www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/treaty.htm
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> ===0===
> Article 1
> The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to
> settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful
> means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are
> not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the
> threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the
> United Nations.
> ===0===
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> So I ask: which one comes first? Article ONE or FOUR? :-)
> And what about that mention to the UN - what do you read in it?
> More: technically, the current *threatening* verbiage from Washington can be
> in violation of this article... or is it consistent "with the purposes of
> the United Nations"?
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> Pedro
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Are you crazy? Anything which does not support the war is "irrelevant"
[see France, Nato, the UN, public opinion, etc]. Don't make the mistake
of thinking that the "Hawks" are interested in rational thought!
Scott A
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| (...) Read some history books, specifically the public opinion about how to make peace with violent and hostile nations in the mid 1930s. "Preserve the peace at all costs." Seriously the parallels between now and then are just plain scary. Do you (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| After Turkey's invocation of NATO's article 4, one other article cries loudly that there can be no NATO support of US intervention in Iraq: (URL) 1 The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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