@92b16vx,
92b16vx;42327 wrote:The Congress authorized Bush to use military force in Iraq IF certain critirea were met, they did not declare war on Iraq. Since most of the critirea was based on the lie of Saddam having WMD, and enforcing U.N. resolutions it is widely viewed as illegal, because they lied, and wrong because we are not the U.N.s police force.
Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, including interference with weapons inspectors.
Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region."
Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population." Not our problem, if it were, we should be in just about every third world nation with a tyranical despot in charge, of course we install violently oppressive dictators, like Saddam, the Shaw, and Pinochet if it suits our personal agenda.
Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people".
Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt of former President George H. W. Bush, and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War.
Members of al-Qaeda were "known to be in Iraq."
Iraq's "continu[ing] to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations," including anti-United States terrorist organizations.
The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight terrorists, including the September 11th, 2001 terrorists and those who aided or harbored them.
The authorization by the Constitution and the Congress for the President to fight anti-United States terrorism.
Citing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, the resolution reiterated that it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime and promote a democratic replacement. Since when is it our policy to overthrow sovereign, secular nations leaders?
Everything in red is a proven lie.
92,
Thanks for that.....but it doesn't really matter. You have some folk, who are a mix of gung ho cowboy mentality with sadistic "shoot 'em up, let's kill everybody" brand of Americanism...and Iraq provided the perfect opportunity, in the form of "the bad guy", for these people to exercise their psycho drama.
So Blackwater is the embodiment of that kind of thinking...it gives these "children" the op to play "soldier" or "cowboys and indians" , for real. Sick.
And it goes from footsoldier all the way to Cheney and Bush. Rumfeld, and most of the generals on the ground condoned this, and were architects of this mindset.
But not a peep of resistance from the right, Republicans, conservatives, or so-called moral majority or Christian conservatives...not a peep. They all hopped on board that train....to their own destruction. Democrats and a large segment of the populace tried desperately to put the brakes on, but it was a runaway, not to be stopped. And it's still trying to run away...with the bridge out, but, thank God, more and more naysayers have hopped on trying to slow the train down, even trying to block the tracks...more needs to be done.
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