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Originally posted by spinningfreemanny@4 August 2004 - 17:24
The political arena changed with 9-11; It was a huge wake up call to the U.S. that there was a call to action to be made against the United States' enemies;Thats why it saddens me that Spain does not act on the aggressor; instead vouching for hiding and ultimately giving their countries control to the influence of madmen. We should always have ours and our allies interests first.
What changed on 911 was the fact the the USA had to face upto facts and not be so arrogant as to think it was so powerful that it was invincable. What didn't change was the right to attack any country that "looked at us funny"
Iraq wasn't the agressor...we were
Again i ask is it right that the cost of any mistakes made is worth the price as long as it's not the USA paying the price.
Your justification on iraq is based on the moved goalposts after the bad intelligence came to light.
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I have neve made any pre defined criteria; In fact I've made it a point to specify that most situations are unique from each other. Where is your line though vidcc? Do American civilians have to die in order for action?
yes you did..you said you pay no attention to "mad dictators or terrorists".... pray tell me why you feel the USA was a target, after all what could we have done to upset anyone?
And no American civilians don't have to die, but you had better be sure of your facts before american soldiers kill foriegn civilians ( oops sorry that is colateral and it's not american civilians dying so it's a price worth paying )
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I'm convinced that Hussein would not pass an opportunity to hurt the United States;
Oh well if you had only told us this from the start...after all that is hard evidence indeed...i'm converted...better invade all the other countries that don't like us.
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he had every reason to and no reason not to.
and what would those reasons be then?. I ask this because you say he has every reason to attack us
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Soon Iraq will be able to democratically elect their leaders too; whens the last time they were able to do that? maybe never.
do you feel that this will stabalise the ME or have we made things worse?