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Originally Posted by Ramrod
How is it nonsense? The leaders are 'fans of totalitarionism' and anyone with them is thus a 'fellow traveller' with 'fans of totalitarionism'
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Because it attempts to imply that anyone who goes on an anti-war march is, ipso facto, a "fan of totalitarianism" which, I re-iterate, is utter nonsense.
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And why hasn't the US invaded all the other countries in this world, such as, say the Democratic Republic of the Congo which are run by mass murderers? Surely it couldn't be because they don't have any oil?
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Answering a question with another question is not an answer...
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The answer is implicit in the question.
If the USA was really so determined to liberate people from oppressive and murderous regimes, they have plenty of choices in this world, and ones where they don't have to make up claims of WMD or links with Al Qaeda or suggest that Saddam had anything to do with September the 11th.
The fact is that Dubya and his cronies had an agenda of their own and they used the above as excuses to let them exercise that agenda.
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'Proposed'? So he didn't actually do it then? Saddam did.
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The only reason that he didn't was that, at that time, it was technologically impractical. The will was most certainly there. See
http://www.iraqwar.org/chemical.htm and scroll down to about half way down the page to where it says "Churchill was in no doubt that gas could be profitably employed against the Kurds and Iraqis (as well as against other peoples in the Empire): *I do not understand this sqeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes"
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Perhaps sometimes telling people/countries how to run their affairs negates the need for greater more forceful action later on.
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And just WHO DECIDES? Who is so arrogant to say that *their* way of behaving is so much better than yours or anyone else's? Hell, this sounds like the sort of fanaticism of certain extreme Islamic groups who think that we should all be Muslims and worship Allah or be murdered as heretics! Is that *really* the sort of thing you *want* to emulate?!