From: Paulo Colaco Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:48:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Reply to JOSE {Hague Apostille -IMPORTANT}
2) The 2003 invasion of Iraq was labeled by the UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan as illegal because there was no UN mandate... From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq :
Robin Cook, then the leader of the British House of Commons and a former
foreign secretary, resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet in protest over
Britain’s decision to invade without the authorization of a U.N. resolution.
Cook said at the time that: "In principle I believe it is wrong to embark on
military action without broad international support. In practice I believe
it is against Britain's interests to create a precedent for unilateral
military action.”[152] United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said,
when pressed in an interview with the BBC in September 2004, "[F]rom our
point of view and from the Charter point of view [the war] was
illegal."[153] This drew immediate criticism from the United States and was
immediately played down."[154]
So, you see: What a farce these conventions and international resolutions
are. All of them, nothing but a farce!
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Paulo Colaco Dias,
International agreements become farces only when one nation allows the other(s)
to do what ever it wants. Hitler wrote the book on this subject. In the case of
Iraq, the UN was two weeks away from publishing its report stating that Iraq
did not have WMD.
The US knew what was in the report but, however, chose to flex its power and
invade that country.
The sad thing is that that action has resulted in the weakening of the US. No
one, not even their allies now believe a word that the US says. The reputation
of the current administration is, well, I need not mention it here. The cherry
on this pie farce is that the US has just realized it cannot afford anymore to
spread democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. A direct result of this gigantic
waste of money ($200,000,000,000 and counting) is that the US dollar is sinking
like a stone. There has never been a country whose currency has become stronger
after a war. This is regardless if the war was a result of a farce resolution,
regardless of if the war was legal or illegal and also regardless of if the
aggressor won or lost the war.
Indians and all others who have a history of using gold as a store of value are
going to be the direct benefactors of the fall of the US dollar.
Mervyn3.0
PS. My heart bleeds for the people of California. Seems that they have all the
equipment to fight the fires but the personnel who man the equipment are not in
the country. Canadian firefighters are already on their way to help out in this
tragedy.
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