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Thread #57976 Message #915312
Posted By: Little Hawk
21-Mar-03 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is Saddam dead yet?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Saddam dead yet?
troll - I am well aware of the content of those resolutions...but...
Conditions have changed since 1991. That is why Russia, France, China, and Germany no longer see the matter as they did then, and why they see no justification for going to war.
You have to ask yourself..."Shall I live by the letter of the law...or shall I live by the Spirit of the Law?". Wise people do the latter, not the former. People seeking justification for extremely unwise actions will often quote the letter (the exact wording) of some outdated and now irrelevant document as such justification...without regard to the fact that the situation has changed radically in the interim.
The USA claimed, in 1991, that they had destroyed 80% of Iraq's military capability in the Gulf War. I suspect that claim was pretty accurate. Iraq has been isolated and subjected to bombing and starvation ever since. They are tremendously weakened, and no threat to the World in general, but they do sit on its 2nd largest oil fields! Bingo. There you have the main reason for this war, as well as purely domestic American political reasons dreamed up by Karl Rove, which have nothing to do with protecting anyone except the Republican administration in the USA...and ensuring their further hold on power...so he thinks. What Bush thinks, I don't know. I suspect he is a bit at sea. He is probably very upset over the fact that Saddam has a statue of himself in Baghdad standing over the apparently severed heads of George Bush Sr and Maggie Thatcher, and that he tried to blow up the elder Bush once. George Bush is extremely sensitive about any attack or slight on his father (according to the book I've been reading)...so I think this would weigh heavy on Dubya's mind. If so, that is unfortunate. It is no justification for launching an irresponsible war that threatens millions of people.
To drag up out of date resolutions as spurious support for this war may fool you, but it has not fooled France, Russia, China, or Germany. Ask yourself why. They know this is not about disarming Saddam, but about building an American empire. And they oppose it for that reason, not because of nitpicking over the interpretation of the wording of some obsolete U.N. resolutions.