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Originally posted by silent_jay
just because it is legal does not mean it is moral cluster bombs that the US has dropprd are still killing people everywhere in the world.
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Strange famous claimed they were illegal. I said they're not illegal. Nowhere did I say they were moral, nor was that even mentioned.
Would that qualify as a straw man?
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Originally posted by silent_jay
so now the whole war was about catching sassam and not finding WMD. I think it is too soon to say Iraq's future is "bright".
As for 36 mortar shells not exactly a smoking gun and the way Bush played WMD as the main selling point for this war if this is all they find he better start back tracking and say catching saddam was the main focus.
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Again, I didn't say the whole war was about catching Saddam. I merely pointed out that, in my opinion (!), his capture is a good justification for the deaths of only (yes, ONLY) 500 US soldiers. Do try to read my posts before you reply, please.
Also, I'd like to point out that these mortar shells were probably not hidden by the Iraqis, merely forgotten. Now, if that's the case, how much more difficult will it be to find WMDs that *were* deliberately hidden?
Suppose Saddam moved most of his WMDs to Syria, as some people claim. The US and UN weapon inspectors can dig up all of Iraq and still wouldn't find them! And to some people this would then be "proof" that the weapons were never there in the first place, even though they'd be stored safely across the border...