[kj] The war criminal Blair ?

[The Stranger]

Wow!  Thanks, Exo.  Now I only want to kill myself!!  :))

On Mon Feb 15th, 2010 11:02 PM EST The Exorcist wrote:


>In honor of this thread I present you all with this.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIf7_ZDGSHQ&feature=player_embedded

>

>You can thank me later.

>

>At 07:34 PM 2/15/2010, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>> "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."  - Michael Ledeen, National review ( a right wing USA publication) <http://article.nationalreview.com/267340/baghdad-delenda-est-part-two/jonah-goldberg>

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>> Bush declared he was launching war vs. Iraq based on Iraq's violating UN sanctions (among any other thing he could think of). Yet the UN also does not give latitude for individual countries, from Senegal to the USA, to unilaterally decide for themselves when and where to enforce individual UN rules. That must be decided jointly.

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>> The US and UK violated int'l law, laws and treaties to which thy were signatories. Period. No gray areas here. It's crystal clear. Crystal clear like 2+2=4.

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>> In reality, the US (and the UK) have acted as if they were the sole actors responsible for enforcing violations, or whatever, as they please, at their caprice, other countries' permission be damned - via UN votes, or etc. The basis is: "The USA is an exceptional nation among all nations in the world with an exceptional privilege to enforce violations of law, or whatever it wants to, that no else has the right to do, other's otes, resolutions, tec., be damned."

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>> Imagine if Iran had invaded Florida after the 2000 US elections for violating nt'l treaties about democratic principles. It sounds preposterous. but with the US and itslackeys in the West, it's just 'common sense."

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>> The justification for US war against Iraq, which has resulted in tens of thousands of real, actual human deaths -not just email chatter fodder, but actual humans with families - were predicated on specious, cynical, selective, false, and unconscionable reasoning - the sot of flimsy argumenttation that wouldnot be tolaretaed weree it to come from, say, Syria. Blair followed suit and was indeed Bush's lap dog.

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>> -0liver

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