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Originally posted by Iron_Ranger:
Whats wrose, hundereds of guranteed deaths, or thousands of poetential ones? Tough question isnt it? And isnt that the question we face.
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While I am in the "go in and kick ass" camp, I can't help thinking that you got your wires crossed with these statistics. If the Iraq military uses some of those WOMD and stands up in the tradition of martyrs then I think that war is gauranteeing thousands (not hundreds) of deaths, and even with what we think Sadman has up his sleeves, I think that potential mischief he can cause is likely to be more in the hundreds (not thousands).
But hey - that is my belief - where would we be without opinions.
In answer to your other question, I think you are free to think whatever you want to about Chirac and Schroeder, but what they are doing is working actively to prevent a war - not to promote and stabilise Sadman. They both would wish he was not in power right now, and at least one of them has expressed this on more than one occasion.
And see Cerek's post on alternatives to war to see that he has said much the same think about France and Germany in his first paragraph
[ 03-08-2003, 09:16 AM: Message edited by: Davros ]