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Thread #56948   Message #898736
Posted By: Troll
25-Feb-03 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why I support disarming Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Why I support disarming Iraq
As usual Bobert, you are so in love with the sound of your own voice (metaphorically speaking) that you have overlooked one simple but important point, viz. it was not Bush who told Saddam to disarm. It was the Security Council of the United Nations and I believe the vote was unanimous.
Secundus, the proscribed missiles will not fall in Iraq if they are fired from the border of that country, always assuming that they aim them in the right direction. Tertius,if you are standing in your front yard holding a shotgun -which the police have told you you may not have because of past bad behavior- and a policeman comes by and tells you to put the shotgun down and step away from it, and you refuse, what do you think will happen.
I think that you'll take the celestial dirt nap.
This is a bit more realistic scenario that the "stick story". Basically, Saddam is between a rock and a hard place. He can destroy the missiles and lose their use if the UN forces attack, or he can hang on to them and guarantee that attack. If he gives them up, he loses "face" and if he doesn't, he could lose face literally.
So whats your take?

troll