On 25 Aug 2002 at 13:29, Mark Collins wrote:
> On Sunday 25 August 2002 5:12 am, you wrote:
> > And Dubya rather than Saddan constitutes a continuing threat to both
> > the US and Israel? A pitiful and pathetic rhetorical ploy. Your
> > laughter has to be a sign of either embarassment or perverse glee.
>
>
> Well, yes. Shrub is going to drag the US into a war with someone who
> apparently has the will to use weapons of mass destruction, against US
> troops and Israel. He is going to cause further hatred in the middle
> east for his allies, and bring about more acts of terrorism.
>
He's planning to pre-empively remove a dictator from power who has
specifically threatened the US and attempted to assassinate a former
US president, is attempting to acquire even more powerful WMD's, and
has shown a historical predisposition to use them both upon other
nations and upon his own country's citizens. If the US waits for
Saddam to acquire nukes, it will only be devastatingly worse for us in
the future. The radical Islamists who already hate us aren't gonna
magically hate us more than they already totally do, and as to acts of
terrorism, I'd rather see us prevent a possible-to-likely future act of
nuclear terrorism by acting conventionally beforehand. We quibbled
and dithered and waited for the nonexistent "perfect opportunity" as Al
Quaeda planned and grew larger and stronger, and it cost us a big hole
in the middle of NYC and three thousand lives; that mistake will not be
made again.
>
> That constitutes a threat.
>
That constitutes intervention to forfend a catastrophic threat.
> --
> ===
> Mark 'Nurgle' Collins
> http://www.thisisnurgle.org.uk
> Stupid IRC quote of the <variable time period>:
> <phoenix> insider, you'll have to excuse nurgle, he's the epitamy of
> evil
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