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Originally posted by Undertoad
If they did that on Tuesday, by Thursday Palestinians would make a pre-emptive strike on Israeli territory, justifying their re-occupation -- except this time with no UN oversight or involvement at all.
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But that wouldn't be pre-emption now would it? It would be retaliation.
Don't get me wrong, the whole Israel/Palestine conflict is a mess, and neither side is any more or less justified. And I don't want to get into a discussion about that right now.
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Where are the aluminum tubes you bought?
- What aluminum tubes, we don't have any aluminum tubes.
The aluminum tubes on this invoice.
- Oh, yes, we did buy aluminum tubes, but not for making nukes. Those aluminum tubes were for making baby milk.
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Cairo said that Hussein was exploding nuclear weapons, which is absolutely not the truth. He may be trying to develop them (and yes, most of the items on the sanction list are used in hospitals as well as weapon making, thus the outcry against the sanctions), but he has not tested any yet. I was pointing out incoherency in Cairo's post. Here's another batch of it:
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You say,"I really don't see what has changed since then."
Well then, it seems that you and the Afghani's are the only ones in the World who didn't!
The difference is, the Afghani's have a reason...
they were oppressed!
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where he somehow tries to tie in Afghanistan's oppression under the Taliban with jaguar's opinion that ousting of Hussein is just as bad of an idea now as it was in 1991. Unfortunately, Cairo doesn't seem to realize that a good portion of the world shares jaguar's opinion. His broad generalization is, in fact, useless. I'll get more into that in the next post.