At 17:14 7-2-2003 -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
But where are they now? The international community didn't want to attack Iraq because it first wanted to be sure that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction. So, to find out if Iraq still had them, they sent an international team of inspectors to Iraq. So far, I've not seen any footage of Mr. Blix & Co. standing next to some recently-discovered pile of WMD's...> >But no one denies that the Hussein government employs a level of > >brutality and terror like only a few regimes in history > > Undoubtedly true. However, brutality is not the reason why the US wants > to invade Iraq. The reason given for the war is "Iraq has weapons of > mass destruction" -- even though the Bush regime has so far failed to > produce much (if any) credible evidence for it.Iraq has used weapons of mass destruction in full view of the world on at least 2 occasions that I am aware of. Weapons of mass destruction and associated accoutrement were found by inspectors after the first Gulf War.
You appear to be suggesting that the leopard has changed his spots. My reply is that that dog dont hunt.
I think the dog is hunting, but failing to find its prey.
It appears to me that, after starting two wars, they finally learned that war isn't the solution -- a lesson the US still has not learned, and probably never will learn.> >In particular, I wonder how this will influence our view of Germany. > >If there is any country that should be most enthusiastic for freeing > >people from a genocidal dictator, it is Germany. > > Saw a speech by, IIRC, Schroeder recently. He mentioned (paraphrasing) > that Germany is opposed against war against Iraq, because the German > people, having been in the center of two world wars, realise that > going to war is never the solution to a problem. Considering Germanys role in both wars, an aggressor who was not successful, it comes as no surprise that they would spout such empty rhetoric.
And of course, there's now definitely no chance whatsoever that Germany will support a war against Iraq -- not after that huge diplomatic blunder by Rumsfeld yesterday, when he equated Germany with Cuba and Libya. That remark probably killed any remaining trace of good will the Germans might have towards the US. It won't surprise me if that blunder will come back to haunt the US later on.
Jeroen "Political Observations" van Baardwijk
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