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04-04-2007, 06:05 PM | #31 | |
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04-04-2007, 06:35 PM | #32 |
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It seems more like an Iranian plan to put one over on Britain, and indirectly the US. Ahmadinejad gets to act like a big shot and Iran gets to act as the innocent party (I don't know whether they are or not, but at this point I'll take the word of our government over that of the Iranians). On a brighter note, they're being released which is good. Ahmadinejad said it was "a gift to the British people", which was nice of him.
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04-04-2007, 07:14 PM | #34 |
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Did the hostages say anything about being made to say that they were in Iranian waters?
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04-04-2007, 07:16 PM | #35 |
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I don't think they are actually on home land yet.
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04-05-2007, 02:29 AM | #37 | ||
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President Bush showed very clearly how little his administration valued the British involvement when he point blank refused any amelioration of his plan or any extended time for weapons inspections despite Blair's urging. Several times during that process Blair was shown to simply be ignored and have absolutely no diplomatic weight with Bush whatsoever. In terms of our ability to influence Bush and his administration, we might as well be a little-known banana republic somewhere. Blair was totally humiliated in his own country and in Europe, by Bush's attitude to him. Last edited by DanaC; 04-05-2007 at 02:40 AM. |
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04-05-2007, 06:09 AM | #38 |
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Also, Yugoslavia had nothing to do with 9/11, and Milosevic was merely a misunderstood dictator who had to be brutal to his people in order to keep the country together.
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04-05-2007, 03:18 PM | #39 |
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"Also, Yugoslavia had nothing to do with 9/11, and Milosevic was merely a misunderstood dictator who had to be brutal to his people in order to keep the country together."
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Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and Hussein was merely a misunderstood dictator who had to be brutal to his people in order to keep the country together.
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04-05-2007, 07:22 PM | #41 |
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This we agree on. I wish you or your country no ill will. In fact, as stated in a previous post on another thread, if called upon by my country to preserve your republic, I would gladly sacrifice myself to do so. We are joined through history. This we must agree on...
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04-05-2007, 07:41 PM | #42 |
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I liked Blair's comment about having confidence in the intelligence of the people to recognize this as an act of theater. Great response.
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04-06-2007, 04:13 AM | #43 |
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But what about the rest of the audience? The ones watching around the world, especially 2nd and 3rd world?
Is Robin Hood a good guy or bad guy? The peasants say good, the aristocracy says bad....same kind of theater with the same results. Exactly why we're losing the war in Iraq no matter what the actual outcome.
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04-06-2007, 04:52 AM | #44 | |
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Also both Milosevic and Hussein were total unmitigated bastards, who oppressed their people and made the lives of those who disagreed with them difficult or entirely untenable. That's not the point. If international law recognised dictatorship as a valid reason for invading and occupying a country we would have far more wars than we currently do. If the invasion had happened directly after Kuwait, it could have been justified imo.....if it had happened directly after the gassing of the Kurds it could have been justified (soon as someone uses the genocide word, international law allows for action). If the assistance which had been offered to the opposition in Iraq had actually been forthcoming when they attempted to overthrow their dictator, that would have been entirely justified, as that would have been assisting the people in their own self-determination. The invasion of Iraq was not in any of these circumstances, the invasion of Iraq was an opportunist move by a president and administration who deemed it useful to America to do so. Last edited by DanaC; 04-06-2007 at 04:59 AM. |
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04-06-2007, 05:03 AM | #45 | |
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When I rail against decisions by the American administration, that is as far as it goes. I have never ceased to feel culturally and historically linked to America as a country and Americans as a People. I doubt there's many people in the UK that don't feel that bond of kinship. In a way that's what makes it so frustrating when the Administration acts with such disdain towards us. |
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