--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also the author keeps asking the rest of us, the whereabouts of the WMD. His Government insisted that there were WMD's. When these were not found the rhetoric, is did you want Saddam to continue in Iraq. How truly sad, how one can conjure an excuse after the fact, for going to War!
Mario replies: Gabe, it would help the civilized discourse that we are supposed to have on Goanet if you knew what you were talking about. I have repeatedly made the case that the WMDs are still hidden somewhere, whereas you and the other anti-Americans keep repeating the fact that they were not found in Iraq, without explaining what happened to the ones Saddam had and used. Maybe you are unaware that they really did exist, and there were 17 UN resolutions from 1991 to 2003 demending an accounting of them. UN resolutions, not US demands. Secondly, if you had looked up the war resolution authorizing the liberation of Iraq you would know that there were several reasons for the action other than WMDs, including the need to depose Saddam and impose freedom and democracy. So, the notion that it was an afterthought is just flat out false, and reflects the biased propaganda being spread by the newspapers you and some of our Canadian friends seem to read. What you are truly sad about it seems to me is that a brutal dictator who was governing by terrorizing the majority of Iraqis, killing his own people and looting his own treasury, has been deposed. Gabe writes: > Everyday we hear of dozens of people being killed in Iraq and we are told to be patient as this same sort of thing took place after WW II in the reconstruction of Japan and Germany. I was not born then, perhaps he knows better - that there were mass atrocities being committed in those countries after they were conquered and it took awhile to calm down the situation. > Mario replies: Gabe, we really don't care whether you are patient or not. Our goal right now is to secure Iraq and stop the killing by the people whom you support from killing other Iraqis in a futile attempt to turn back the clock. The notion that you had to have lived through WW-II to know about what happened then is preposterous. By this definition the world began when YOU were born.
