05-02-2003, 01:11 AM
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Junkie
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Originally posted by KillerYoda
The United States, Britain and France began in 1991 denying Iraq the right to fly in parts of its own airspace as a way of implementing UN resolutions urging protection for the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Shiites in the south from the wrath of Saddam. But the "no-fly" zone was never specifically mandated by the UN Security Council, and was rejected from the outset as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty. We brought it on ourselves. It's like a homeowner shooting a burglar, then the burglar going "What the fuck did you do that for?"
Plus, I'm sure if Iraqi planes (if they had any) started flying over the United States we'd shoot them down in a second too.
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Here's some support for you from here:
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"The astonishing thing about the matter is that the world has grown accustomed to news of skirmishes over the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq," Al-Quds al-Arabi continued, "and equally accustomed to news of Iraqi civilians being killed and injured by air strikes-as though the victims are not human beings, and as if the United States of America has the right to kill them and to destroy Iraqi air defenses whenever it pleases," the paper says. "Everyone seems to forget, including the Arab states who are supposed to be Iraq's brethren, that these no-fly zones in which the battles occur are Iraqi-not American-territory, and that they were established by unilateral American fiat without any resolution from the UN Security Council."
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edit: fixed link
Last edited by smooth; 05-02-2003 at 01:17 AM..
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