At 10:52 PM 3/6/2003 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>If it hadn't been for the international community, he would *already* have
>gone to war.
Pure speculation.
>The same Bush who didn't want to go the UN in the first place, but only
>went there after a lot of pressure from the international community.
Except that the serious US troop buildup in the Persian Gulf did not begin
until after the passage of resolution 1441 by the UN Security Council,
which prepared for "serious consequences."
>And I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of starting a flame war.
>Other people on this list have also made comments about the erosion of
>civil rights/liberties in the US, and have mentioned that the US is on its
>way to becoming a police state. Do you believe that all those people wrote
>all that with the intent of starting a flame war?
But you are the only one that actually believes it.
JDG
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