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Hussein may not be a sock, but after the latest videotapes, I suspect he may be a cardboard cutout.
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This "find an alledged violation, go to war" almost screams out the fact that Mr. Bush had no real intention of trying to find a peaceful way of either measuring or ensuring Iraq's compliance with U.N. resolutions.
We knew he wasn't complying, as has been proven, so the measurement was apparently just fine. As for ensuring compliance, Hussein has shown himself to be totally impervious to bribery, reason, or threat. Just how do you propose we should have peacefully forced Hussein to destroy his weapons?
Follow, if you will:
If we assume the weapons are to be destroyed, logically, someone must destroy them. Due to simple exclusion, if Hussein doesn't destroy them, or someone else must. Since Hussein displayed absolutely no intention of destroying his weapons, someone else had to destroy them. Which is exactly what's happening.
What part of this progression escapes you?
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Y'know, really, just stop. The day we invade Israel is the day you can claim this is about "UN resolution violations".
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That reminds me. When are we invading Ireland?
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Why invade Israel? They actually like us! That would be like shooting your dog because somebody made it legal.
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Have you guys noticed how much Bagdahad looks like harlem from the begining of Good Times. ? Pretty funny...in fact it's DYN-O-MITE!
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Did I say I cared about UN resolutions in general? This ONE happened to be a good idea, and had the UN not imposed it in the first place, we should have.
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You keep claiming that Bush is doing this because Iraq is violating UN resolutions. However, if Bush were in the habit of enforcing UN resolutions, Israel would be fucked. So, obviously, Bush has some reason other than a violation of UN resolutions for conducting an unsanctioned invasion of a sovereign nation.
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Bush is enforcing a good rule. Just because that particular rule happened to be codified in a UN resolution, it is not a rule BECAUSE it was codified as a UN resolution (or series thereof). It's a good rule in and of itself.
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"it is not a rule BECAUSE it was codified as a UN resolution"
I fully support the Washington and Nashville invasion acts. Good rules, yo.
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What all these 'people' talking about Israeli resolutions conveniently forget is that Israel was never promised "serious consequences" or any other euphemism for armed attack, like Iraq was. Really, compared to the Iraqi resolutions, the Israeli resolutions carry all the diplomatic force of a suggestion from your uncle.
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Also the Israeli resolutions were Chapter 6 (non-enforceable). This was due to American pressure. Go figure.
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