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I understand that point of view Undertoad. To a degree I agree with you. But.....The world is and always has been full of dictators of various levels of brutality. If we went marching into every country whose people were being brutalised by oppressive regimes we would never have had time to even look at Iraq because there are soo many more deserving candidates for regime change.
Our natural outrage at the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime has been used to manipulate us into approving action which breaks out of the bonds of international law and leaves those bonds frayed.
Instead of making the world a safer place for the loss of one of its great dictators, we have made the world infinately more dangerous in the precedent we have set .....So you may trust your government's motives in this....can you be sure of the motives of tomorrow's government? When the invasion of a soveriegn nation requires no first strike or percievable danger to the agressor we have strayed into very very dangerous waters.
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