--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/4/07 2:40:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Good guys" usually dont' invade other countries... > > > > > > So were we the bad guys when we invaded Germany and Japan? > > > > We weren't fighting a pre-emptive war... > > > > now you're rationalizing. War is war. It's fought to be won. > > Non sequitur. We're the bad guys because we > started a pre-emptive war against a country > that had not attacked us and was not a threat > to us. > > Excuse me, Iraq attacked us on almost a weekly basis. We > patrolled a no fly zone that Saddam agreed to and our > aircraft were constantly fired upon by his military.
Oh, PLEASE. Saddam never agreed to the no-fly zone, and they were never authorized by the U.N. They were illegal to begin with. And the idea that Saddam's pathetic ground defenses were a "threat" to the U.S. is ludicrous. The no-fly zones and bombings were used by Bush specifically to provoke Saddam into shooting down a plane to give the U.S. an excuse to invade. That's on the record. > The only way we could find out that he wasn't an immediate threat > to anybody was to remove him from power and scour his country. No, it wasn't. The weapons inspectors were doing a fine job, even despite the U.S.'s sabotage of their efforts. > Until then, the world thought he was dangerous enough to > pass 17 UN resolutions calling for him to disarm. He may have been dangerous to his neighbors, but not to the U.s.
