Antiwar protests increase probability of war

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Originally posted by Undertoad
Referring delicately to the "present difficulty we're having with Iraq," Clinton cautioned, "It is not a replay of what happened in 1991. It is a forerunner of what could or could not happen in 2010, 2020, in 2030."
He understands the danger, underestimates the time-frame. And notice, tw, he disagrees with you; even Clinton knew Hussein had dangerous stuff, in 1998:

Why do you, like George Jr, view everything only in terms of "black and white". One who only reads in "black and white" could not see how Clinton and tw both state the same conclusion. Furthermore, Saddam is no threat to anyone and avoids all conflict with America - contrary to a president who promotes hate, fear, and religious intolerance.

Once was a famous psychological experiment where a 3rd grade teacher told kids that blue eyed people were superior. The experiment demonstrated how linear, myopic, and unilateral the kids would become when instructed how to hate and fear. Also what that business president discovered just before taking his whole staff to Germany on a sales trip. George Jr has turned what should be intelligent people into mindless 'veins hanging from teeth' militants by advocating hate and fear combined with outright lies. Why do I see this? I was just as foolish in VietNam days as so many here are about Iraq. I was one so easily manipulated by a lying president back then just as UT now sees things only in "black and white" today. However unlike UT, I kept having doubts then because a criminal president stated everything in "black and white".

Most dangerous event for a policeman is trying to break up a domestic fight. Until Saddam becomes a threat to his neighbors, then instead he is not a threat to anyone. Saddam never becomes a threat to America; unless that world policemen decides to intervene prematurely. Clinton also understood that reality. Washington Post article forgets to mention that part or the part about how US aircraft carriers were useless if Saddam's neighbors were not threatened - as I demonstrated in a post entitled "In the Navy, You can spend a Pretty Dime...".

This time, the US is not even a policeman. A policeman is empowered by citizens. The US will attack Iraq as a vigilante who acts criminally. The US has no madate to act as a policeman and is outrightly opposed everywhere in the world. Even in Eastern Europe and Japan is somewhere between 57 and 80+% against a unilateral US attack. These are landslide numbers! George Jr does not care and has said so. He will make America a world criminal only because he wants revenge on Saddam - no matter what destruction to the US. Even those WMD are only an excuse - which is why George Jr does not want Hans Blix and his inspectors to succeed.

This would explain why George Jr fanatics are so critical of Hans Blix. They want war as if war will always solves everything. Myopia based in part because some people only see solutions in violence. Did they read Pentagon Papers? Of course not. Like George Jr, they fear and must childessly insult anything they can't comprehend because it is 'too long'.

If Saddam is left alone, then he is either toppled; he is defanged by weapons inspectors; he is attacked by his neighbors; or he attacks a neighbor, shows his hand, and is destroyed by attacks from entire world. The only bad scenario is one advocated by George Jr - unilateral, unprovoked attack by US on a soverign nation for not one good reason. Expect recession and a reduced standard of living because a mental midget president does not care what he spends or destroys to execute a personal vendetta against Saddam.