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Thread #57623 Message #907861
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Mar-03 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Tony Blair a lying sack of shit?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Tony Blair a lying sack of shit?
A great many countries have "weapons of mass destruction", specially if you consider that term to mean not just nuclear weapons, but various other weapons. It's not unusual to have them, nor is it a valid excuse for launching a first strike on anyone, no matter what his past political record.
There is no valid excuse for launching a first strike on another nation. A first strike is naked aggression and is contrary to international law. It is the act of a criminal.
It was because Saddam launched a first strike on Kuwait 13 years ago that an international coalition smashed up Iraq and threw them out of Kuwait. That was perfectly understandable, although it was in fact not necessary to smash up Iraq itself...the coalition could just as well have simply smashed the Iraqui forces in and near the borders of Kuwait, and driven them back into Iraqui territory. Such a battle would have effectively crippled and demoralized the Iraqui army, but would not have killed 100,000 Iraqui civilians immediately, and another million or so in the next 12 years through malnutrition, depleted uranium from American artillery shells, etc.
A future international coalition may yet smash up the USA (in 5 to 10 years from now, after they've had time to prepare properly for such an effort) if Mr Bush and his advisors do not come to their senses. Such a coalition could eventually include Russia, China, France, Germany, Pakistan, India, every Muslim nation in the world, most of Latin America, and much of Europe and Asia. The USA has about 1 real ally left out there...Israel. (Britain is under the control of a prime minister who is blatantly denying the will of his own population, and that is not likely to last forever.)
It depends entirely on just how much aggression the USA decides to unleash, and where and how they do it.
Stranger things have happened.
To return to "weapons of mass destruction", the crucial matter is not whether a country HAS them, but whether it USES them. (The same goes for guns in the hands of ordinary people.) Someone who uses them has openly committed a criminal (and self-defeating) act, and the general community will take action against him. He will find that the general community is stronger than he is in the end. Hitler discovered that. So did Mussolini.
The "community" on this planet is not defined as the American President and his government...it is defined as ALL the nations of the World, whose collective voice is the United Nations, and that community is by now utterly fed up to the gills with the foreign policy of the Bush administration.
- LH