You don't seem to understand what I'm saying etech, I neither know nor care. Many countries have WMD, is the US going after them all? And just how hard would it be to come up with a "weapon of mass destruction"? I can think of any number of ways an amateur could pull off a WMD, and I suspect it will only get easier as time goes on and more media attention is applied. How is you government going to stop that? Okay...you tell me.
You don't seem to understand what I'm saying etech, I neither know nor care. Many countries have WMD, is the US going after them all? And just how hard would it be to come up with a "weapon of mass destruction"? I can think of any number of ways an amateur could pull off a WMD, and I suspect it will only get easier as time goes on and more media attention is applied. How is you government going to stop that? Okay...you tell me.
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I understand how it can look this way to someone as blatantly biased as yourself... but Saddam commited the first criminal acts by forcing the UN out of his country and then NEVER (Caps for emphasis) chose to follow the International Laws he signed his name to after Desert Storm..
If Saddam would have complied with the ORIGINAL UN Resolutions then he could once again have the largest CONVENTIONAL Military in the world ... but instead he chose to cause troubles for the UN Inspectors TIme AND Time AGAIN.... WHY won't he follow International Law?
I know we (the U.S.) helped build him and probably helped him create WMDs...so we know what he had.. Why won'the just come clean and give it up?
Were is it not? Okay, maybe not the PRC, Cuba or NK. Its largely been an absentee landlord imperialism. You do what the US wants or face trade santions all the way up to bombs dropped on your country. At the very least, you get childlike insults. Now, the US is moving to the next phase. Obvioulsy, no one has read a single link I provided which isn't surprising.
You don't care if Iraq has WMD when that is the main basis of why the UN has kept Iraq under sanctions for the past twelve years. That's very selective of you.
No, of course the US and UN are not going after all countries that have WMD, just the ones that signed a ceace-fire agreement which was contingent on that country giving them up.
Yes an amateur could but not nearly at the scale that a state-sponsored program could achieve.
The world will not stop the proliferation of WMDs by ignoring them and pretending they don't exist. They will not be stopped by encouraging countries to ignore the treaties and agreements that they have signed. If we do that then countries and people will only be emboldened to acquire and use them.
Fantasy. Its never been about WMD...just war propaganda. France and Germany (as do the others but won't say so) know this. Few outside the US believe its anything but propaganda.
Interesting absentee landlord imperialism..interesting. So we are am empire but not really.
But guess what, every country has the ability to lay trade sanctions.
Factually incorrect.
No.
Ask your country the same question. Is it not against international law to attack another country that hasn't attacked yours?
Which is something that many here have denied until recently. Again, I don't care if he does or doesn't. Its not grounds for invasion no matter how many UN members the US manages to bully or buy to their position.
Hagbard, I know about the doctrine for a new american century. It's why i have grave doubts about our motives. While you get called an idiot, I think those who cannpt consider other facts than what they wish to believe are kind of simple minded themselves.
Its new and improved imperialism, evolving just as 18th century Dutch imperialism was not the same as 19th century British imperialism. Here's is yet another link you guys can ignore:
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And enforce it will gunboats and threats against international companies that do business with the "enemy". No. The Bush administration should put you guys on the payroll.
The only place we have been using gunboats to enforce trade is on Iraq. And that has been a mulitalateral UN force.
US pressure, I said that already. Since when does the US gave a damn about UN resolutions...is Bush a born again UN believer too? Need I once again mention all those resolutions against Israel that go ignored?
Would it make me feel differently...what do I think about France and Germany now? You seen to know what I think...tell me.
Well if that is true, which i doubt as there are 5 vetos in the security council, then we can at least agree the UN is useless.
I really doubt the 18 IRaq resolution will get thru the security council. I guess we dont have enough gunboats....
Oh please. The smug arrogance of you people is just sad. You want to know what simple-minded is? Simple-minded is Hagbard's Simplied Foreign Policy of MYOFB. Like that will work. Radical Islamists don't hate Westerners because they meddle in Middle Eastern affairs - Radical Islamists hate Westerners merely because they exist. Read this quote from a statement issued by al-Qaeda explaining why 9/11 happened:
How can a Muslim accept humiliation and inferiority "when he knows that his nation was created to stand at the center of leadership, at the center of hegemony and rule, at the center of ability and sacrifice? ? When he knows that the [divine] rule is that the entire earth must be subject to the religion of Allah ? not to the East, not to the West ? to no ideology and to no path except the path of Allah??"
So how is sticking your head in the sand (Hagbard's prefered position) going to protect anyone against people who offer two choices - be Muslim, or be dead? Closing one's eyes didn't make Hitler go away, and it's certainly not going to make the West-hating Islamic fundamentalists go away, either.
Sorry I couldn't do better. I can't read Bush's mind. To be absolutly sure my analysis is the only right one would be as silly as those who are absolutly sure we're wrong.
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