From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Thu May 20 2004 - 23:14:12 MDT
Joe Dees
Sent: 21 May 2004 02:36 AM
Iraq is not an unjust war of aggression against the Iraqi people, but rather
a just war of liberation for them that has unseated a mass-murdering despot
from his bloody rule and that is presently in the process of incubating a
constitutional democracy in his place. Unfortunately, both types of wars
(liberation and aggression) require occupation and military conquest; in
this case, the defeat of the despot's military and the deaths of its
soldiers.
Since Saddam Hussein killed, on average, 100,000 of his citizens a year for
21 years, and since the US military has killed about 10,000 Iraqis in a year
(mainly the ones who were formerly employed in killing the 100,000 per
year), there are at least 90,000 Iraqis who are alive today who would be
dead and rotting in Saddam's mass graves if the US had not gone in and
deposed him.
And WMD's are showing up in sarin-gas-filled artillery shells, in a
truckload of chemical weapons and high explosives stopped at the
Syria/Jordan border, in the components of a nuclear centrifuge found buried
in an Iraqi scientist's rose garden, and in a seven pound chunk of potassium
cyanide found in a house in Iraq. They also showed up in the lungs of
5000Iraqis that Saddam gassed in Halabja.
---- [Blunderov] Perhaps you should do some reading on the subject of what constitutes a 'just war' instead of substituting your own opinion for fact. A party who goes to war is obliged to do so only as a last resort, amongst other things. Please do not make a spectacle of yourself by trying to pretend that this was even remotely the case. I am not interested in your body counts. It is, as I find myself forced to repeat, an irrelevant thesis. As to the WMD's - if that's the best you have to offer it is pathetic. 'Immediate threat', remember? I know Rumsfeld's memory is highly selective in regard to this phrase, but sadly for him, and you, this is a matter of (very) public record. --- To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
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