<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're not bullies. The UN approved severe consequences
> if Iraq did not comply. They changed their mind in the
> end and we didn't.
They were UN sanctions, not US sanctions. Our going to war, because
the UN was choosing not to enforce the sanctions, was an act of
unprovoked aggression. The Bush administration even called it a
"preemptive strike" which semantically parses as exactly the same
thing.
Perhaps the UN's choice to not enforce the sanctions was influenced by
players who benefitted from that decision. But that's how things work.
-Kevin
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