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Originally Posted by shakran
We have a great time shoving countries around telling them how they should be, act, and do, and it's not our affair. If during the 80's Russia had come over here and started telling us to convert to communism, and started arming separatist groups who supported that notion, do you seriously think we'd have put up with it? The nukes would have been flying within an hour.
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You are joking, right? You do realize that the Vietnam anti-war movement was largely funded by and answered to the KGB and their people, don't you? Read up on Armand Hammer when you have the time.
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Iraq is a very different story. He wasn't harboring bin Laden, he didn't launch the 9/11 attacks, he didn't have the capability of using those mythical WMD's against us even if he had actually possessed them - his best missile flew about 120 miles on a good day and then more than half the time it didn't hit what it was aiming at, which didn't matter because it didn't explode either.
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He did harbor terrorists that did kill US citizens. He did pay people to conduct suicide bombings against American allies. He did shoot at US planes. He did plot to assassinate a former US president. Any ONE of these was casus belli to kill him.
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And it's the same with the terrorists. When they strike it's definitely wrong, but if we didn't do stupid shit that provoked them, they'd go looking for other targets.
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Why don't we give them therapy, too? Hell, why don't the Democrats run THEM for office?
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And Iran, Pakistan, and many others have done similar things. Why haven't we invaded them too? The answer is simple - Bush wanted to destroy Iraq to finish what his daddy didn't.
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No, they're next if they don't behave...