Re: To Jules
<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The attitude "Agree with war or get out America" bears a much stronger resemblance to Iraq than the United States. Ironic that everyone who feels your way wants to blow that whole country up.
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I must disagree with your comment.
If it were Iraq, the attitude would be "Agree with war or DIE", which, coincidentally, is pretty much the ultimatum that Hussein has placed upon his own people. We also happen to know that this is not an idle threat with this man.....he's proven time and time again that he has no regard for human life - be it that of his enemies or his own people. Do I want the country blown up? Absolutely not. Do I want him out of power and a regime change? Absolutely!!!!
How Chirac can say that they just need a little more time to get Hussein to comply? What the hell is he smoking to alter time? Iraq has had 12 years to comply with a resolution that had a timetable of less than 3 months, and the only reason that Hussein is throwing the occasional bone is that there are 300,000+ troops positioned to kick his a**. Tell me, who is going to enforce compliance if the US leaves? The French? HA!!!! Chiraq doesn't mind the wait-and-see attitude as long as his country isn't footing the bill!
My comment, though out of line, now that I read back through it, stems from the fact that countless nations have an expectation that the US is always going to help them out - be it in foreign policy, economic, humanitarian aid, etc. My point would have better been expressed as "if France can't see this situation from the POV of the US, Britain, and Spain and are going to resort to less than scrutable tactics to make sure France gets its way, then perhaps it is time for the US to take it's economic marbles, go home, and quit being friends with the neighborhood bully." I am really starting to wonder if this is not a global conspiracy to deliberately derail the success and status of superpower that the US has retained after the other superpowers have diminished somewhat in their power. France has never been a superpower - their position within the UN Security Council was a gift at the UN's inception, and Germany has no moral leg to stand on after their country caused the two largest global wars in history. Germany, of all countries, should understand the gravity of letting a despot like Hussein remain in power. Didn't they learn anything from WWII? In response to Germany's claim that they are afraid that a US led liberation of Iraq will cause global war, all I can say is "remember blitzkkrieg?" France, England, and Russia all knew damned well what was going on in Germany in the 1930's yet they did nothing. Hitler violated the terms of the Versailles treaty and crossed into the Alsace-Lorraine, and yet they STILL did nothing. Only when Germany invaded Poland (after Germans dressed in Polish military uniforms attacked a German outpost near the Polish border, thus "justifying" the attack on Poland - sound like anything you may have heard in the new lately?), did England and France declare war on Germany, and the US caught heat back then because we did not sent troops overseas to help. I guess it doesn't matter that we were sending arms and munitions to England and France even if we weren't sending our military. Perhaps this is France's way of getting back at us for trying not to get involved in a war overseas. We learned OUR lesson about nipping despotic killers in the bud, isn't it time they learned THEIRS?
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