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Old 10-15-2004, 05:44 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jimbob
He's set a very dangerous precedent in launching a preemptive invasion, which if adopted worldwide could see, for example, North Korea launch a nuclear strike on the US (Bush has already labelled them evil after all, and the US has a history of invading countries both overtly and covertly) or an attack by Iran/the whole Arab world on Israel.
The thing Europeans don't realize is that the US changed when we were delt an unprovoked attack on September 11th, 2001. Though I would hate to ever see this happen, but I believe that Europeans will never understand it truely unless there is an attack of the same magnitude in Europe. We're not going to just sit around and wait for another attack. We have the power to deal with percieved threats in the world, so why not use it?

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And we don't believe he went into oil-rich Iraq to free the people - they're suffering in many other countries where he won't help out.
I am not convinced that France's opposition to the war was purely a desire for peace. The French oil companies had a lot of contracts with Saddam that were just waiting to go into effect as soon as the sanctions were dropped. And it is also coming out that the French recieved bribes from Saddam through the corrupt "Oil for Food" program.

And France holds a veto vote in the UN security council. So this pretty much shows that going to the UN is a waste of time.
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