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The case for war
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I used the word *obvious* to illustrate the questioners use of that word by claiming that it is now *obvious* that there were never any WMD.
It is not so obvious to me and I'm prepared to wait for those with greater access to information to provide the answers.
In the same way I find it hard to accept that there are *people many times worse than Saddam*. There's big problems in many African countries, Liberia is but one example, but does anyone have enough information about deaths, torture, asset stripping etc to make a comparison with Saddams regime ?
I don't know if you read my earlier answer here, but it is made perfectly clear there that - if Bush and Blair lied about WMD - then so did the Presidents of France, Russia, China and the ten rotating member-countries of the Security Council. Why? because they all signed up to Resolution 1441 which specifically said Iraq had WMD and the means to deliver them! It seems that you - like many - have been misled by yet another media feeding-frenzy. (Incidentally, Hitler was clearly a disaster waiting to happen long before he invaded anywhere.)
Re the US and anti-Israeli UN resolutions, you seem to have missed the point there, too. When the US wants to protect Israel from these, they simply veto them - ie have them thrown out in their entirety - they do not accept a watered-down version.
Apart from that, I am totally with you on the Palestine question. As the crippled Sheikh who is the figurehead of Hamas says: "All I want is my family's house back." That's all most Palestinians who occupied that territory for millennia really wanted originally.
Two questions for you...a.) Are you glad Saddam Hussein is gone? b.) Other than the method that was used, how do you suppose that wonderful end might have been achieved?
Are you seriously contending that Chirac, Putin and Company were led blindly by an evil, conniving Blair/Bush duumvir into signing Resolution 1441 - which stated categorically that WMD existed - even though they did not believe that? That the Dastardly Duo misled not only their own peoples but also - by proxy of all these other lamb-like Presidents' ignoring their own security information - the peoples of over half the world? Don't you imagine it might have occurred to the Bush/Blair mind that - if they really were lying - they'd have some awkward explaining to do once WMD failed to appear? They'd need to be cretins to overlook something that obvious, surely. Now, I can't swear for Bush, but Blair is no cretin.
If anybody deluded anybody, it was the various intelligence services which deluded their all the various governments...accidentally, one would hope. (I really can't be bothered to explain again the difference between lying and just being wrong.)
This remains just another media hoo-haa about nothing as any rational exposition of the facts - as above - makes plain. You mustn't feel obliged to answer any of my questions here, as this - for me - is the end of this story.