In reply to thomas malloy's message of Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:23:40 -0600: Hi, [snip] >>Note that the French didn't actually *betray* anyone over Iraq, > >Really, what about the Iraqi people? They got screwed over in >numerous ways. The French had their fingers in the oil for food >scandal. They were cutting lucrative deals with Sadam and happily >burning the oil.
According to the fake documents planted in Baghdad after the invasion. Why do I think the documents are fake?..because they read like a who's-who of the people the current US administration doesn't like. > >> >>A vote in the Security Council is democracy in action. Sometimes >>it doesn't go your way. Get used to it. > >The UN is a debating society, and a rather ineffectual one at that. All large human gatherings end up being debating societies, it's human nature. >They screwed the Iraqi people even more than the French with oil for >food, If I had my way, America would with draw it's membership and >financial support from the UN. What kind of a fool would allow Sudan >to chair the Human Rights Commission? This is a good point. > >>The real problem is that the US is all for majority rule, as long >>as it is part of the majority, but when the shoe is on the other > >You conveniently ignore that Sadam had, and used WMD. The UN gave him >orders to account for certain materials and he ignored them. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020921/2002092124.html >We >decided that the world would be better off with one less tin horn >dictator, and IMHO it is. 1) Iraq is almost certainly better off without Saddam, but the world as a whole almost certainly worse off as a consequence of the *increase* in animosity among Muslims world wide, brought on by the war. 2) Saddam could have been disposed of without going to war. However the US administration wanted a war. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
