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the problem is that the rest of the planet agreed that the un inspections regime had worked by the time bushwar began--that is why the "coalition" is the farce that it is and has been---it is not because of economic interests---despite the constant refrain to this end circulating around the rightwing media---the second thing is that obviously the americans had to present hussein as a present danger to them and the link to al qeada was crucial in this---otherwise bush would have found himself without any reason to go around the un at any particular time----the only problem was that their arguments to this end were false and unconvincing then, and are only more obviously false now. the americans did not go into iraq because of "terrorism" in any direct way---read the project for a new american century website, think about the crap concerning the first gulf war and how the reaganiste cowboys felt hamstrung by the un at that point---the war has nothing to do with the arguments proffered by bush and the other mayberry machiavellians---the only surprise is that so many people actually believed them. now, sadly for bush (but no-one else) both the wmd argument and the iraq as imminent danger via their-link to terrorism in the abstract and al qeada in particular arguments have collapse entirely--the history of american foreign policy since world war 2 demonstrates that the americans have never cared about dictatorships no matter how brutal so long as they were convenient for the americans (think about pinochet, for example, though the examples are legion)--so that argument is crap as well....the discourse that has been floated until recently about terrorism has made thinking on the matter nearly impossible for many people, and that is beyond unfortumate. maybe people should rely less american television for their information.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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