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Re: Newsbits: CA Recall and IMF-Argentina Negotiations
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Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:19:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
  
None of which was listed as the reason for the pre-emptive war. But I guess Hussein’s actions (and the actions of his sons) are as good a reason as any to kill 3,000+ innocent Iraqi civilians, not to mention the dead or wounded US citizens...

IMO, the only justification needed was this: Hussein was in continuing violation of the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War, both through continuing activities in no-fly zones and hampering efforts of enforcement of the UN resolutions governing Iraq. I wish W had just said that, because I don’t like the idea of US troops liberating every population of the world that’s oppressed and making the US beholden to their well-being. Sometimes people need to change on their own, not through US military might. I guess that makes me isolationist, eh?



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  Re: Newsbits: CA Recall and IMF-Argentina Negotiations
 
(...) IIRC, the no-fly zones were established by the US and UK, so they are irrelevant to UN resolutions. For that matter, Dubya himself hampered the efforts of the UN to enforce its own resolutions when he made logically impossible demands upon (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Newsbits: CA Recall and IMF-Argentina Negotiations
 
(...) None of which was listed as the reason for the pre-emptive war. But I guess Hussein's actions (and the actions of his sons) are as good a reason as any to kill 3,000+ innocent Iraqi civilians, not to mention the dead or wounded US citizens... (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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