--- Ken Ketsdever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse me, but unless we are attacked or directly > threatened by another nation, or are supporting a > nation in similar circumstances then we don't have > the authority to attack another nation. It is role > of the UN to intervene in the case of tribal wars, > genocide and tyrannical dictators. We are not the > world police. We have been playing that role for > upwards of 60 years and what has it gotten us? Has > it stopped the rate of genocide? Of other nations > inflicting their will on others? NO.
I'm not clear about what you mean. So who's at fault the US or the UN? Or Both. Seems they both failed in your eye, so should we give up or just let the UN continue to fail on its own? > In an international community there are rules and > even the biggest kid on the block needs to follow > them. There is no evidence of ties between Sadam > and Bin Laden. Just as there is no evidence of WMD. > The international bodies involved in searching for > WMDs prior to the war stated there was no evidence > of them prior to us going to war. Yet cowboy Bush > said yepiee kai yeah.. I am doing it my way to hell > with world opinion or international law. Ever nation including Iraq thought they were there. > On September 11, 2001 we were attacked by > terrorists. On September 12, 2001 we had the world > on our side to track them down and prevent this from > happening again. Bush Jr. has destroyed this sense > of international co-operation by abusing his power > and initiating a war against a sovereign nation, > against world opinion and international law. We > have no coalition. We have a number of nations that > provided the minimal support they could while > extracting the highest ransom for that support that > they could get. Our coalition was bought or > coerced. Again, Saddam payed off a few nations with blood money to get the sanctions lifted so he could build WMDs. If you think stopping him was a cowboy action then we need more cowboys. > Bush is right there are times you have to stand up > and lead even if you lead in a direction that is > contrary to popular opinion. Unfortunately > manufacturing evidence to justify war that is more > personal vendetta than anything else really doesn't > come close to leading. The is a difference between > being a leader and bully. Mr. Bush has misused his > power and over reached the bounds of his authority. Manufacturing evidence? You just made that up. > Mr. Kerry is right. We should have waited and > rallied more international support. What would it > have cost us to wait another six months or a year. > Maybe then others would be helping to foot the cost > both financially and in terms of lifes lost, or > ruined. Wouldn't have happened, too much money involved. -sm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=17 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132041 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
