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wonder----i have heard this litany several times before---i already made my main arguments:
1. as for the un--you have a selective amnesia--remember what was happening in the period just before bushwar--remember for example blix's report directly contradicting the american position.
nothing in what you say militates against it.
1a. more generally, if the americans are so worried in principle about wmd systems, they should stop private firms from selling them. remember that a significant percentrage of what he was accused of having (not all---a significant percentrage) came from american sources with the full support of the reagan administration.
on the second point---i assume you refer to kuwait---well that rationale--which is dubious--applied equally at any point and does nothing to support any particular timing of american actions.
3. i just talked about this third point of yours in the previous post--please read it. i get tired of repeating the same thing over and over. if you have something to say about the argument, then say it--it serves no purpose if you just pretend it was never mentioned.
4. the link that sold the war was to al qeada. without that, the argument about imanent threat to the us was not possible.
it was the threat to the us---NOT KUWAIT--that sold the war to those who supported it. what other country are you talking about? iran? the americans supported and armed iraq during that war--what are you talking about?
so the bush argument was false. period.
the matter of whether hussein did or did not supply financial support to palestinian resistance movements is irrelevant. i would be more surprised if he did not than i am that he did--but either way, it is irrelevant.
and what on earth would prompt you to post bush's state of the union speech as if it proves anything?
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