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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Considering that Hans Blix himself stated that they were being hindered and therefore needed more time, Saddam was in breach of the UN resolution which negated the 91 ceasefire..
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Yes, more time; not go in, guns blazing, to look for something that wasn't there - only the UK and the US supported this action.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Now, back to that list you supplied, if military action was the only way to remove them from power, would you march protesting such action and keep those dictators in power?..
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Now back to the list I supplied, and your "have you stopped beating your wife" question; I would support military action that was supported by an international coalition (such as in Gulf War 1), but I would protest any unilateral action (which in mine and others eyes, is not the same as "keeping these dictators in power"), but hey-ho, if you think helping stopping a mugging is the same complexity as an conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives on an ongoing basis, with no perceivable end, and overstretching the UK armed forces, not much anyone is going to say will change that mind-set.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Ah so you believe the situation before and after is pretty much the same, just that saddam isn't in power doing it.
So what exactly are you objecting to if you truly believe that to be the case?
The lack of Saddam in control?
It would appear that you do find the situation of him in charge killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's to be acceptable.
Thank you for answering my question finally.
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I believe (but only my assumption) is that if we went in to "improve the situation" (which we didn't, the reasons were WMD and terrorist-support, but you keep ignoring that fact), and we haven't improved the situation, and in fact more Iraqis are being killed and injured now than before the war, this must be a new definition of "improve the situation" I had not come across before.
And I love the way you managed to twist theDaddy's post to "
you do find the situation of him in charge killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's to be acceptable." - interesting take on what was said.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Hang on, are you now saying things are different now to what they were before action was taken, yet a moment again, you were claiming they were similar.
Are you objecting to anything specific, as apparently you're objecting just for the sake of objecting?
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The same inside Iraq
Different outside Iraq