[quote]Originally posted by Animal:
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To stop the killings and human rights abuses is one thing, but the question has arisen as to why now and why Iraq when there have been killings and human rights abuses around the world, long before this little tiff with Iraq. Such abuses will not stop with the ousting of Saddam, so will the US pursue every such criminal around the world in the extent that they have cornered Saddam?
Why has the US chosen now to act against such suffering around the world? Why have the waited so long to act?
There seems to be a hidden agenda at the Whitehouse regarding Iraq. Whether or not that's true, I don't know, but it looks that way.
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You have to start somewhere
If a house was burning down would you try to save some of the people or do nothing because you couldn't save them all?
The USA is acting now because there is a new Sherif in town. One that understands actions speak louder then words. No hidden agenda we what the SOB out because he's worthless Bastard that has and is helping terrorist groups.
Why have the waited so long to act?
(I pulled this out specificly to address this, I am assuming there is a typo and you meant to write "Why has the USA waited so long to act")
1)What does that matter? The USA is acting now. To take that line of reasoning "why has is taken so long" to justify not doing anything is silly. If anyone takes that line of reasoning then they Must say that the world shouldn't try to stop Slavery (that currently is going on in parts of Africa) because nobody has done anything about it yet. Or better yet why try and stop the ecological problems the world has now, because nobody tried to do anything about them until the late 20th century! What took them so long? If people use the "what took them so long logic" Then they should apply it to the other issues that they themeselves hold dear. (I used the ecology bit because from where I sit the same people that are argueing against any war are argueing for the ecology. And I'm NOT going to give them a pass on being intellectualy dishonest by not applying the same standards to their arguements.) Why does the rest of the world wait on what the USA does? Then when the USA finally does something, they complian about the timing as a reason not to help in doing something about the problem. Why does the rest of the world complian about the USA acting as if they are the world's policeman? Then not do much to stop anything themselves? Or when they are in trouble look to the USA for help?
If the world works together to stop the human rights abuses, the USA WILL not have to purse every criminal around the world the world will be doing IT already.
[ 03-15-2003, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: John D Harris ]