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Re: I think the 1st Ammendment was broken
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:25:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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Telling a country that they can’t have a weapons program??
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UN res 1441, among others.
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Telling Iraq that
they couldn’t have a weapons progam was *not* the reason for this fiasco.
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Actually, I think that is precisely the reason.
JOHN
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No, the WoMD was--there was nothing in the res. that said that Iraqi’s
couldn’t have, say, a factory producing bullets and rifles and such--that’s a
weapons program...
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“and such”, such as ballistic missiles (Scuds)?
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To deny a country the right to defend itself is just ludicrous.
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If defense is the actual intent. Iraq was an aggressor, and to characterize
it, especially with SH at the helm, as anything but is just ludicrous.
JOHN
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| (...) The missile in itself won't be much of a weapon without a powerful warhead. A SCUD armed with 1 ton of TNT will do less damage than a "daisy cutter" or similar ordnance. (...) Technically, since the previous armistice (1991) Iraq did not (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Yeah, I seem to recall an arms buildup in "aggressive" Iraq to go invade the US... oh wait, it was the opposite. Iraq wasn't agressive at all--it was the US agressiveness--politically, economically, and militarity--agressive on all (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: I think the 1st Ammendment was broken
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| (...) No, the WoMD was--there was nothing in the res. that said that Iraqi's couldn't have, say, a factory producing bullets and rifles and such--that's a weapons program... To deny a country the right to defend itself is just ludicrous. Dave K (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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