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Originally Posted by fatboy
Well, maybe Afghans. But you're right, better to be the pacifist appeasers that marked Clinton's entire tenure. The time when bin Laden called us "paper tigers" and urged attacks with no fear of retribution. The time of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis starving and dying due to UN sanctions and despotic rule. Sanctions and rule that could have been eliminated if but one country refused to tolerate any more obfuscation and stalling.
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There were many reasons for the starvation: Hussein and his regime and their little efforts to help the Iraqi people, the sanctions, and the often forgotten "United States' deliberate destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure during the first Gulf War".
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinio...nctions07.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/300words.html
Do you suggest that the situation in Iraq is better now that one country "refused to tolerate any more stalling"?
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Does this include Bush voters?