Re: USA & Iran


AC wrote:
On 1 May 2006 16:40:47 -0700,
wf3h <wf3h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


seems you're against war except when you're in favor of it.

The situations are so entirely different as to not be comparable. Iraq
posed no threat

in what way? having a history of developing WMD's, having lied about
it, taunting the international community with full knowledge that the
ONLY thing allowing UN inspectors in was the threat of force...in what
way WASN'T iraq a threat?

and was contained, and even if it wasn't, it simply does not
possess the industrial capacity and population that Germany does.

it doesn't need to possess the INDUSTRIAL capacity. it merely needed
the weapons capacity.


That's not to say that the Brits weren't grateful, but to suggest, as so
many "patriots" do that there was some phenomonal sacrifice and generosity
to Lend Lease is ludicrous. The actual sacrifices didn't come until
Americans finally hit the dirt and began shooting Germans and Japanese,
which took some time.


so you're saying we should have intervened earlier? gotten into war
earlier?

Yes.


that your take on iraq, too?

Iraq was contained.

until it wasn't.


or are you gonna be inconsistent there as well?

Are you going to even try to make sense? Evidently your knowledge of
inter-war Germany is pretty bloody weak.

oh brother....again you seem to have a fascination to blame the US for
every hangnail suffered by every human since 1776.

you simply haven't made your case. should we have waited until hussein
broke out and attacked? until he DID develop WMD'S?

you haven't put forth a clear statement about the legitimacy of
intervention or non-intervention, except to state that, no matter WHAT
the US does, it's wrong.

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