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Originally posted by lurkette
/me splutters in disbelief
When you're talking about waging war on a sovereign country WITHOUT PROVOCATION I do believe that we have a higher authority to justify our actions to than the fucking uninformed American people (see my thread about 66% of people being unable to name ONE! ONE! supreme court justice)!!! We are part of a larger entity than our own nation, and should be held accountable for our actions - indeed, we WILL be held accountable for our actions by a bunch of fucking fanatics who see this as one more step towards American hegemony.
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as if 12 years of ignoring UN resolutions isn't provocation enough. Or the months of deception after 1441 was issued with a final warning... Everyone knew that Iraq was a problem, and everyone could have told you that Bush wanted the problem gone.
He was right to do it too:
- with Saddam gone, the sanctions could be lifted. This would remove another anti-US argument in the Muslim world.
- US troops could be withdraw from Saudi-Arabia, another anti-US argument gone.
- the US sends a clear signal to other would-be aggressors and supporters of terrorism: stop your actions, or face the consequences.
- one might get a stable democracy in the area, which might spread out.
- Saddam no longer sends large piles of cash to the families of suicide-bombers in Israel, potentially stopping quite a few of them.
- Saddam and his threat of using or developing WMDs is gone, and so is a lot of the instability associated with that.
- The US is no longer dependent on the Saudi-Arabian oil, and can tell those extremist bastards to stuff it.
- If the Iraqi people were to finally have a good government with respect for it's people, the fanatics won't have anything to hold the US accountable *for*. But they'll hate the US anyway, no matter what you do, so it's not much of an argument.
- And finally, with Iraq under US "control", one could also attack Iran, Syria, and potentially Saudi-Arabia. This ability in itself is probably enough to persuade their leaders to change their ways. If not... war is always an option.
Reasons enough.
(Oh, and who cares if the US people cannot name ONE!, ONE! supreme court justice. It's not like they have a need for such knowledge in their day-to-day lives. I don't know the names of most of the members of the Dutch administration, nor the names of any of the equivalent judges. That hardly matters to my daily life. If I need to know, I'll find out.)