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Thread #117126   Message #2588339
Posted By: Gervase
13-Mar-09 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
Subject: RE: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
OK, to answer your 'objective' questions:
"Had the USA not acted as it did on March 20th 2003 in dealing with Iraq, when and how would you have liked to have found out about Libya's totally secret nuclear weapons?"
Sooner. Yet another example of defective intelligence. The sort that got us into the war the first place.

"Do you think that chances of secret development of nuclear weapons on the basis of sale to the "highest bidder" have been enhanced or reduced by the exposure of the activities of Dr.A.Q.Khan? Has what has happened, i.e. exposure and shutting down of this network been of any significant benefit to mankind?"
See above. And to claim that this is the reason for the invasion is like saying we put a man on the moon to invent the non-stick frying pan, you clot.

"When and how would you have liked to have found out about Iran's totally secret nuclear weapons?"
Have we found out?

"Who do you think would have won the second Iran/Iraq War, and in what way would that outcome be beneficial for the region and the world" So, Saddam would have attacked Iran? Don't make me bark. Iran would have attacked Iraq? Ditto?

"The first Iran/Iraq War resulted in 1.5 million dead, how stupid, brutal, thoughtlessly callous, inhumane and short-sighted a betrayal of mankind do you think it would have been to allow such a conflict to occur?" See above. Do you honestly imagine that either Iraq or Iran would have been so stupid, etc?

"With regard to peace in the middle-east do you believe chances of finding a lasting solution are increased or reduced by the removal of a state sponsor of terrorism?" Decreased, thanks to a resurgence in Islamic groups like Hamas and Hizbollah, buoyed up by a general Islamic resurgence in the region fostered by the invasion. It's cool to be anti-Western.

"With regard to peace in the middle-east do you believe that Lebanon stands a better chance of achieving peace and stability as an independent sovereign state without the presence of Syrian Forces of occupation, or was the Lebanon better off as a Syrian colony?"And the relevance of this to the invasion of Iraq is, er, what precisely?

Teribus, your questions are specious. I'm afraid you're talking bollocks again.