--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually it was quite legal, Saddam constantly violated his terms of cease > fire dictated to him at the end of the first Gulf war.
It has recently been shown that Bush was actually conducting heavy bombing operations in Iraq before officially going to war. My understanding is that Bush went to war without allowing the UN inspectors to finish their job (as he had said he would) and without getting the final OK from Congress (as he had promised he would). Either way, Bush went to war under false pretenses, having decided (according to the Downing Memos et al.) much earlier that he would have to lie and cook the evidence to justify his actions. I am no lawyer, but I believe "lying to justify a war" equals "illegal war". Hey Saddam had any > number of opportunities to prove he didn't have WMDs and it would have prevented > an invasion. All he had to do was co-operate with weapons inspectors, not > play the shell games, and made a serious effort to prove to the world he was > harmless. He could have begged the weapons inspectors to come in and promise > not to interfere and be as much help as possible. but no. What are you talking about? The UN inspectors were there, and they were efficiently doing their job. It was *Bush* who interfered with them and prematurely pulled them out, not Saddam. But you know if he > did that , he would still be there, the weapons inspectors would be gone saying > they couldn't find any and people would still be wondering if he had them or > not. Sanctions would have been lift because no proof was found that he was a > really bad boy and he would be reconstituting his programs very shortly. And > he still would have been a threat to the region. An awful lot of "woulda, coulda, shoulda," there, MDixon, and totally beside the point: Bush invaded Iraq illegally, and as it turns out, unnecessarily. <So Rory I take it you > don't think Iraq is better off without Saddam? Not being in Iraq, I couldn't tell you first-hand. The reports I have been hearing from civilians in Iraq imply otherwise; some have gone so far as to say that things are definitely worse now than they were under Saddam. Either way, it is beside the point, and does not justify a war entered into illegally in the first place. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
