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Originally posted by A Quiet Boom
First, the libs complain about our involvement in Iraq now that no stockpiles of WMD has been found yet they forget about the hundreds of thousands of people Saddam and his Baathists murdered while at the same time they criticize that we aren't doing enough for the problem in the Sudan. Forget the WMD justification, wasn't the mass murder of Iraqis enough of a reason? And if not then why should we go into the Sudan?
I can't wait for November 3rd....
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No, it isn't enough at all. You don't go to war and justify it after the fact. War is a last resort and we went well before we should have. To ask if the genocide of innocent Iraqis was enough for us to go to war (as justification after the fact) I would say "No. Emphatically no it wasnt." The facts are that this crap - as unfortunate as it is - happens every day all over the world. We don't depose leaders in these countries on a daily basis so what makes SH so special? I'm not saying we should just throw our hands up in the air and give up and an I'm not saying that SH didn't need to go but what I am saying is that we were wrong. Period - end of story.
France may have been selling weapons and making deal with SH - they were wrong too but that still doesn't make us right in our war. Supporting evidence of this is still yet to be seen past the initial reports (to me - I may be behind on this).
In my opinion the uncertainty surrounding this whole situation has been there from the beginning and that in and of itself should have demanded much more caution than we showed.
President Bush's administration has made mistakes that cannot be left to chance to happen again. I do not believe that he is a bad President but I do believe Al Gore would have been more cautious and I also believe that America will be better off with someone else. John Kerry is not my #1 choice for President but of the options I have he is where I will place my chips in this election.