NP: Iraq

[cfalbert]

> > >
> > > --- Robert Vassegh <rob.v at rcn.com> wrote:
> > > >And untold thousands of Iraqis (human beings) died because they lied.
> > >
> > > This may turn out to be true, but what was the reason that those
thousands
> of Iraqis ended up in all those mass graves?
> >
> > This might be a bit of a platitude (well alright a lot) but perhaps it
> > needs to be pointed out that two wrongs don't necessarily make a right.
> > So if they were lying about the justification for war, that's OK?
>
> No, but it takes into account the fact that there is a "balance sheet"
that
> polemicists would like to ignore.

WHAT????!!!!???????!!!!!

Those mass graves contained victims of Saddam's post Desert Storm purging of
elements encouraged by the US to take up arms against him..........in
1992........

If this "balance sheet" thing has any merit it should follow some kind of
intelligble principle............do you want  to take a stab at it?



  "Untold thousands" had died and were dying
> at the hands of Sadaam before we ever went to war.  The war stopped that.

uh...........not exactly.........to the best of my knowledge "mass killings"
in Iraq pretty much ended in 1994, though "targetted assassinations" and
random persecution continued.....but this doesn't make Iraq much different
from its neighbours....


 And
> the argument that there were no WMD's is still uproven.  Some intelligence
> reports have said that Sadaam evacuated truckloads of them to Syria,
whaere the
> truly elite from Iraq went into hiding.

Hope springs eternal............it is becoming increasingly celar that the
WoMD issue was largely fabricated to provide a rationale for
invasion....Even Wolfowitz, the prime mover behind this policy, no longer
denies this......

The fact is, that, in spite of unfettered access to the ENTIRE nation, and
unsurpassed surveillance mechanisms,  we have yet to turn up a SCINTILLA of
evidence supporting the WoMD position.....what we can now safely conclude is
that Iraq IN NO WAY represented a military threat to the US...

Now some neapolitans had Il Duce sniffed out from the start,  others hailed
the invasion of Abyssinia........its not  to  late  to repent...

love,
cfa





> David Morris
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