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Op maandag 24 februari 2003 22:14, schreef Samuel W. Heywood:
>
> The Panamanians responsible for such an outrageous abduction would get
> hunted down and busted.
>
Why is it outrageous? There is no law in Panama that says it's illegal to take
the US president hostage.
>
> OK, its like this:
>
> The good guys have the right to hunt down the bad guys and bring them
> to justice. The bad guys don't have the right to mess with the good
> guys. If they do they will face additional criminal charges. The
> US President is the good guy. Noriega is the bad guy because he is a
> narco-terrorist. I learned about good guys and bad guys in the first
> gangster movies I saw when I was a little kid. Why haven't you learned
> about good guys and bad guys?
>
Who is determining who are the good guys, and who are the bad guys.
I think Saddam considers himself the good guy. And in his own (twisted) mind,
he really is.
>
> Neither does the US want to start a war. The US is contemplating
> a pre-emptive strike to prevent a war from happening.
>
What is the difference between a pre-emptive strike and a war?
Maybe Saddam is planning a pre-emptive strike to prevent the US from killing
him? Selfdefence is a valid motive for violence, isn't it?
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Casper Gielen
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No weapons of mass-destruction in Iraq? No
problem, we'll bring them some of our own.
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