From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 21:58:38 MDT
dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> If you are a Libertarian I suggest you go back and review the
> arguments about pre-emptive attacks that were all the rage in the party back
> when the movie Deliverance came out. The basic philosophy hasn't changed a
> whit and a pre-emptive attack is still an allowable defense.
I agree totally. If Iraq posed an immediate threat to us we would have
been within our rights to attack. What this thread is about, is that the
statements about such a threat coming from the administration were a
tissue of lies. So, there was no threat, and apparently not any WMD
either, and it appears some administation officials have now said as
much to ABC.
The only reason a majority of the american people supported the war is
because americans will support their country at war. The polls I saw
prior to the launching of hostilities seemed to indicate that americans
would support the war given a U.N. mandate. Remember those polls?
If there was no threat then this was an aggressive war and a war crime.
(Some may say the last war never really ended, and argue the rightness
of it legalistically, which is fine). But there was no threat.
-Mike
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