guys, please: for the sake of brevity, post all your arquements in one post, and respond to individual arquements also, dont just make 10 posts
-Threat of force: its not the same..you live in society of your own free will, and therefor exept the laws. However, what the US is doing is making Iraq (or did back in 1991) enter into a conract under threat of force. Thats different that laws, since everyone exepts laws imlicitly..
-The chemical plant was debunked, and even the US admits that it is not, nor was it used to manufacture weapons.
-Those 40 (or whatever) countries that "support the US", only started supporting the US AFTER the war started. Before the war, it was only 4 countries. These countries realized that the US is going to war with or without them, so they decided to "give support" in hopes of getting some money out of it, which they will.
-The fact that Iraqi soldiers have gasmasks says nothing. The US has gas masks, does that mean they're going to use bio weapons? Its protection, just like all the other countries.
-The inspectors did not have to check under every rock. 300 people, working 12 hours a day..you do the math. The "Coaltion" has found something, but it has been written of as NOT weaponds of mass distruction. They have not found anything that is prohibited. The inspectors, in 3 months, if indeed there were prohibited weapons, would have found SOMETHING, however they did not. You cannot hide thousands of nukes very effectively, nor can you hide factories, since they seem to be a bit inconvenient to move around on short notice..
-1441 was signed by the UN over a year ago. Circumstances change, and 1441 had NO implications of war. They wanted to see if Saddam had weapons, fair enough. But there was no mention of war or anything else. The US states that they have been trying to disarm Saddam for 12 years. Thats just inaccurate. They have ignored him for 12 years, otherwise they would have seen that he was developing weapons.
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Shrike: Bush is a tyrant in so many ways, that I cannot name them all. For your sake, here are a few. I only say "do your own research" because not only will you find more than I can explain in a few sentences, but if you find the stuff on your own it will have a degree of validity which I cannot provide..fair?
-Bush has started a war which will kill thousands of Iraqi civlians, WITHOUT concrete proof, or UN go ahead.
-Bush has proclaimed to the world that his opinion is supreme. In naming the "axis of evil", he has basically said "I decide who has what..Korea cant have nukes because I'm the boss, and I decide who is right"
-Bush caused a HUGE humanitarian crisis by bombing Afganistan and Iraq. What you have to realize is that the Iraqi people are faultless, yet it is they who are getting screwed the most. Bush has prevent convoys with food and medicine from entering Iraq (these supplies were purchased with Iraqi government money, and were destined for relief to the Iraqi people). Bombs kill people, you have to understand that. Also, destroying electtic plants and other "infrastructure" places, he has put the civialian polpulation in harsh condition. Do you really think that water filtering plannts or the like are military targets?
-More to come
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