Kal Alexander wrote:
nobody wrote:
Mike1 wrote:
As long as "we"'re indulging ambiguous-collective fallacies, allow
me to suggest that the American People never lost sight of the ball
as getting Hussein out under any expedient excuse because he's a
vicious *******
who had to go.

No single country should be allowed to unilaterally decide the fate
of another country. I know that it is a big blow to their ego, but
Americans need to understand that they cannot act alone,

Sorry, but no nation needs to ask anybody else's permission to
act in defense of itself.

Of course not, but what were we defending ourselves against? Sadaam Hussein's
alleged WMDs, which it turns out he never had because, if he had, he'd have used
them against us? Hell, lots of countries have war plans for this and war plans
for that.....that doesn't mean that we have to go to war with them. Who was
threatened with what? You may not be old enough to remember, but Adolf Hitler
had a war machine big enough to kick the bejesus out of half the world, and we
didn't feel threatened by him enough to start kicking ass until after he
declared war on us. But taking out a third rate thug and his mickey mouse army
because of what he would have liked to be able to do to us? It cost us the
respect of just about every nation in the world.....oh, they'll still deal with
us because we're the biggest gorilla on the block, but you know what they all
must think of a nation that goes to war to take out a bunch of non-existent
weapons. How can anybody respect anyone who is so fearful of so little?