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13 years ago @ Antiwar.com Blog - Why We're Going to Dal... · 0 replies · +1 points
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For the record: Iraq used WMDs against Iran during their war in the 1980s. Saddam Hussein used them against his own people, to keep them in line. But I digress. 1990 brings Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the world comes together to throw them out. EVERYONE on the planet KNOWS Hussein still has WMDs, and he's on the verge of obtaining nukes. After Hussein surrenders, the UN demands that he turn over the WMDs. Of course, Hussein says “no,” denying he even has them. Of course, pea brained pacifists want to leave it at that, but once again, I digress. The UN seals off Iraq, and begins searching for WMDs. 7 years later, they haven't found any, and the pea brainers really believe he doesn't have any. He denies the search team access to a designated search site, the UN subsequently gets 16 resolutions to search, and Hussein DENIES them access every time. Question: How come? Why did Hussein say no? Ya think it could be cuz that there was evidence of them? Maybe? Huh?
9/11 hits, Hussein isn't involved, but it's the Byzantine Middle East. Hussein and bin Laden are enemies, to be certain, but “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a saying that came about because of scenarios like this one. First, there was prime facie evidence that Hussein had WMDs, which gave us probable cause to use force to search for them. That PC was still in place, we still had the right to search Iraq by force for WMDs in March, 2003.
You can argue that we had enough control that we didn't have to invade Iraq. But then, you can argue that if we'd have taken that chance and not used force, and something went wrong, there would be no forgiveness. So, in 2003 we invaded Iraq, looking for the WMDs that were last seen by outsiders in 1990. 13 years. We never found any WMDs. Question: How come? Hussein never had any? Pea brained pacifists shout that from the rooftops. Actually, it was like a dope dealer being tipped off before the cops got to his house with a search warrant: HUSSEIN GOT RID OF THEM. Go figure.
We could not take the chance that he still had them, or somehow had access to them, wherever they'd been placed.
Now comes the rabble from the left shouting “War Crimes!” “Bush should be in The Hague!” And all the millions upon millions of pages of lying hatred that spewed out from previously trusted sources e.g. the dominant American news media and the rest of the information infrastructure. And at least one former FBI agent. Oh, and the entertainment community, which holds ridiculously huge sway in American political culture.
And waterboarding? Easy. Those few prisoners who were waterboarded were extensions of the battlefield, in that we knew for a fact that they possessed information about plans to kill people. (It's like a parent getting information from a person WHOM THEY KNOW FOR A FACT has kidnapped their child.) Using force under those conditions is not only legal, it is an obligation. Why else have the leaders of the left shut completely the hell up about it? Think it's because the corporate oligarchy etc. has SO MUCH POWER that they shut it down? Laughable naivete. Obama would have personally pulled the switch on the Bush administration if he'd had even a scintilla of evidence that they committed war crimes. That they violated the Geneva Convention.
Of course, I'm on the “other side” of the righteous ones, someone who believes right wing lies, and I don't/can't think for myself. Here's the deal: Everything I just wrote is the irrefutable truth. The arguments against it are partisan political lies, ginned up by hackneyed, anarchic voices who intend to deconstruct America as it currently stands, and create a new, UN-style global breeding ground for half-wits and knaves. Well, The Constitution is still alive, people are still free to vote for whomever they want, and the Alinsky inspired lefties are never going to cram their bill of goods up our behinds.
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