NP: Iraq

[David Morris]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> 1. If they only had said that the war is necessary to save Iraqui lives,
without the whole WMD-thing, like in the Yugoslavia-case. It would have been
more difficult for at least France and Germany to say "No" to an UN-resolution
threatening Saddam with war. But all this faked evidence made it so easy to
stay out of it and criticise the Bush-administration.

The jury is still out on what was or wasn't faked, who seriously believed what,
and what is actually true.
 
> 2. What about the Congo, Ruanda and Uganda? Following your argument we must
declare war on them & on all the other bad guys (like Mugabe, Gaddafi, Assad)
immediately before they develop or buy weapons of mass destruction and are safe
like North Korea.

Not true.  I was arguing for balance in assessing the human costs of this war. 
I would also like to consider the furture of the entire region in this balance
assessment.

> 3. At the end of all this we logically must declare war on Pakistan, India
and China too.

Not true.  Do you consider them rogue states?  And do you want to consider
power balances and regional stability issues?

David Morris

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