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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dane Simri: [QB] Hey, DT... "The first war against Iraq was not (they had invaded Kuwait) but the ongoing one is a war of agression." In a previous "life" (ie. career), I spent many hours aboard coalition aircraft over the southern no-fly zone, and when you get "painted" by an Iraqi SAM radar before even leaving friendly airspace, the line between "aggressor" and "defender" blurs very quickly. Sure, I question our motives in the establishment the northern and southern no-fly/no-drive zones... but remember that Iraq was and is a defeated aggressor state. They forfeited a certain part of their sovereignty when they lost the Gulf War (for example, the right to manufacture weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them, or the right to move military vehicles/weapon systems in certain parts of their territory). I'm certainly no historian, but weren't the same types of restrictions placed on Germany and Japan after they capitulated in 1945? I believe it is the intent of the United Nations to restore to Iraq her full sovereignty when she proves she can handle it responsibly. (I don't necessarily think this is the intent of the United States, but that's another story...) And Daryus... "Economic sanctions aren't an act of war. Especially when they have killed a mere 1 million children under the age of 5." Didn't UNICEF determine last year that the root cause of these deaths (their number was far less than one million) was the mis-allocation of funds by the Iraqi government, in other words, their funneling of funds into military projects that they've supposedly agreed by truce to abandon? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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