The threat of Iraq’s continuing weapons of mass destruction programs was a minor component in the House Joint Resolution 114. Saddam’s refusal to accommodate weapons inspectors constituted a necessary and sufficient casus belli.
It is a real shame to see the resort to such threadbare lies. Anyone with attention span longer than a gnat remembers, that Iraq allowed weapons inspectors to do their work, and that they were pulled out on the eve of the invasion so as not to be killed by the US humanitarian bombs.
Your secretary of state climbed atop the tribune of the UN and delivered to the world sombre presentation of the Iraqi WMD programs, backed by satellite photos, "proving" the existence of the same. Presentation, that has since been revealed to be known to Powell at the time to be a pack of bald-faced lies. Far from a "minor component", the non-existent WMD program and equally false allegiations of Saddam's ties to al-Qaeda were the rationale for invasion.
It is litle wonder that Percentage (http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/0082149) of Britons and Canadians, respectively, who say the United States is a “force for evil”: 35, 34
All the better if it complies with international law, in contradistinction to Hitler annexing Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and Putin Medvedev invading Georgia to protect the rights of South Ossetians freshly minted Russian citizens.
US-backed Gerogia attacked South Ossetia, bombarding Tskhinvali with MLRS artillery, killing Russian peacekeeping troops and Ossetian civilians, in violation of agreements that it signed earlier. All the while, UKUSA blocked the UN resolution, proposed by Russia, that demanded the cessation of the use of force. That was before Russian army moved into Ossetia.
International law makes no provisions for safe heavens for the aggressor. Did the US and its "democratic leader" Saakashvili expect that they can level a city, and then retreat and declare ceasefire, like nothing had happened ? That would be a lot like demanding that the Red Army in 1943 stopped its advance upon reaching the border of the Soviet Union. Looks like it is you who stands in need of some instruction.
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Date: 2008-08-16 12:56 pm (UTC)It is a real shame to see the resort to such threadbare lies. Anyone with attention span longer than a gnat remembers, that Iraq allowed weapons inspectors to do their work, and that they were pulled out on the eve of the invasion so as not to be killed by the US humanitarian bombs.
Your secretary of state climbed atop the tribune of the UN and delivered to the world sombre presentation of the Iraqi WMD programs, backed by satellite photos, "proving" the existence of the same. Presentation, that has since been revealed to be known to Powell at the time to be a pack of bald-faced lies. Far from a "minor component", the non-existent WMD program and equally false allegiations of Saddam's ties to al-Qaeda were the rationale for invasion.
It is litle wonder that
All the better if it complies with international law, in contradistinction to Hitler annexing Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and Putin Medvedev invading Georgia to protect the rights of South Ossetians freshly minted Russian citizens.
US-backed Gerogia attacked South Ossetia, bombarding Tskhinvali with MLRS artillery, killing Russian peacekeeping troops and Ossetian civilians, in violation of agreements that it signed earlier. All the while, UKUSA blocked the UN resolution, proposed by Russia, that demanded the cessation of the use of force. That was before Russian army moved into Ossetia.
International law makes no provisions for safe heavens for the aggressor. Did the US and its "democratic leader" Saakashvili expect that they can level a city, and then retreat and declare ceasefire, like nothing had happened ? That would be a lot like demanding that the Red Army in 1943 stopped its advance upon reaching the border of the Soviet Union. Looks like it is you who stands in need of some instruction.