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Trajan Octavian Titus said:You, name one country that has done more good to help the world than the U.S.?
What does this have to do with the Iraq invasion? Because the US did some good things in the past necessarily means that Bush's war was motivated to do good things?
You, and half the people on this sight who spout off Al-Jazeera talking points on a daily basis.
I never listen to Al-Jazeera. Is that some kind of jazz band?
You, I have not heard an original thought come out of your fingertips since the begining of this discussion.
Yes, oh spouter of neocon apologia.
You, who denies the widely accepted fact that Saddam perpetrated genocide and crimes against humanity on his own citizentry negating his right to soveriegnty and giving the U.S. the right under international law to use force to remove him from power.
I do question the validity of the neocon line -- so much of what they have told us is BS. Why do you accept their story as rote after all the mistakes/lies about WMDs, nuke programs, hundreds of tons of chemicals, long rang missles, aluminum tubes, Nigerian Yellowcake, Iraqis welcoming us, mission accomplished, death throes, etc. etc. etc?
Do you ever stop and wonder about the credibility of these folks? How many mistakes/lies do they have to make before you stop accepting blindly what they say?
I don't doubt Saddam was a brutal ruler who crushed rebellions and caused the death of thousands in doing so. Same thing we are doing, actually. 30,000 dead in less than three years, within a decade will be up there with Saddam's supposed numbers.
But a brutal dictator alone does not justify invasion, IMO. Nor was it the reason we invaded -- there are brutal dictators all over the place, including IMO, Cuba, a brutal dictatorship government you admit you support. So the "save the poor Iraqis" after the fact justification for the pretextual invasion doesn't fly.
You and others on this sight, who even now as we speak attempt to revise history right in front of my very eyes in that you are calling this an illegal war allthough the U.N. passed a resolution threatening serious consequences against Saddam if he did not abide by the parameters of the dozen odd previous resolutions which he failed to do, and denying the fact that the President was granted expressed permission by congress for the use of force against Iraq.
Where did I ever say illegal? I personally do not know if it was illegal, I am not that familiar with international law on this point to state an opinion.
However, this invasion of a country that did not attack us, has never been associated with a terrorist attack against us nor supported terrorists against us, that was not involved in 09/11, and was invaded based upon "mistakes" if not outright lies -- is illegetiminate and was unjustified, IMO. That I have said, and stand by it.