<OT> Re: we shall remember them

[Collins]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 10:23:44 -0700 "Net Llama!"
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> Ya know, i've been trying to stay out of this wildly off topic
> thread, but i'm getting sucked in anyway.

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 If others are offended, please speak up.

> 
> What I have completely failed to grasp is the administration's logic
> 
> (amongst other things).  Mr. Bush has stated that one of the reasons
> why the US must strike Iraq first is because Iraq has failed to obey
> the UN's rules & regulations that it had agreed to after the Gulf
> War.  Yet at the same time, Mr. Bush states if the UN doesn't
> provide him with a resolution that permits him to strike Iraq, he'll
> just do it anyway, because the UN risks becoming nothing more than a
> "society of debators", akin to the League of Nations.
> 
> Can someone explain to me why the US has a right to ignore UN rules,
> yet Iraq does not?  I have no argument that Hussein is a nut job of
> the first order, however this sounds like first class hypocricy to
> me.
> 

I believe that Bush is treading a fine line between those who believe
in the UN (I'm not one of them) and those who believe that our
national interest takes precedence (I am one of those).

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