IT'S A GAS, GAS, GAS!!
MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVES/WEEKLY ROCK POLL POST
Return to Gasx3/Poll Post Board Homepage
Name: LoveYouLive
E-Mail:
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Question of Authority? (nsc)
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Time: 10:45:42 AM
Remote Address: 192.11.226.116
Message ID: 57981
Parent ID: 57975
Thread ID: 57884
I wouldn't question that other countries played a role in arming Saddam. They did, but I think you are quickly dismissing the role we also played. The situation with the anthrax is complete unacceptable. Just because it happened some 20 years ago, doesn't make it a tired old arguement. It is a relevant fact if we are opposed to him having such weapon agents and we are using it as a condition to go into Iraq now. Saying we are wrong to have ever given him the stuff is a start, but that isn't going to wash in much of the world. Also your dismissal of the Chemical Weapons and our own role over looks the fact that we provide the plans and process by which these weapons could be created. So one country sells him raw chemicals (used for any number of purposes) and they are wrong and we provide him the know how but that is fine? Again that doesn't wash. We offered assistance and enabled him to build these weapons. Finally, you never touched on the fact that we looked past his genocide at the time it actually happened. Why was that? If it is so terrible now and another condition for the need to go in then it should have been terrible and challenged then. It wasn't and it is just another point by which the world sees us as hypocrits.
Concerning most of the other weapons that you mentioned. Most of those were obtained years ago... as far back as the 70's when Iraq was a client state of the Soviet Union. If having those tanks & equipment is an issue today, it should have been addressed at the end of the first Gulf War. It wasn't then, so why is it now an issue? I know the French were selling him planes well into the 80's, but they sold them to anyone that could buy them. At the time we really didn't care because he was our buddy. Concerning the spare parts, while I don't think the French should have been doing that, I am not sure that they were actually restricted under the conditions set down by the UN. I don't actually know this to be a fact... do you have the conditions that clearly spell out what is and isn't allowed? I would like to see the actual resolution or document, not someone talking about. I know that the small arms you mentioned are not restricted. We may not like it, but people are allowed to sell him guns. I am sure that Dick Chaney would have done it if he were working for an Arms Company just as he had been lobbying to get the Oil restrictions lifted when he was at his old job. Doesn't Saddam need money to buy all these things? Won't buying his oil work to serve that purpose? Why wasn't Chaney concerned about this a few short years ago? But coming back to the conventional weapons, most of what you are talking about pre-dates Gulf War I. I am surprised you didn't focus on the GPS equipment and night vision googles that the Russians sold him. I think that stuff is certainly questionable, but I am not certain it is actually illegal. We will have to see how these and other allegations play out. For now they are just that, allegations.
Concerning how fair the Iraqi's have decided to fight... I really don't look to defend them. What they are doing is wrong. Certainly by our standards of warfare. However, by virture of many of the International Laws you reference our entire action in Iraq is illegal. I know you and others don't like to hear it (I don't even like to say it) but we are breaking Internation Laws governing warfare in much of the world's eyes. You can dismiss that as being false, but that is the way the see it and will justify it. But I think what is really telling in all this is how the average Iraq has responded. We are not being welcomed as the liberator that so many people said we would? Maybe this will change (I only hope for our sake) but it would appear your average may hate Saddam but they seem to hate us for coming in. But for now they are trying to repeal an unwelcomed invader.
Note: Do not hit the "Post Message" button more than once, even if it is taking a long time to post your message. Doing so may cause a double post to appear and could slow down your posting time even more.
Download your free, customizable Burton Networks Message Board now!
© 1998 - 2022 by Keno Internet Services, except where otherwise noted. All rights reserved.