View it in it's context.I'm simply expressing an opinion.
Ever seen how your friend says **** you to you and you don't fight.But some dude in the pub says the exact same words and all hell breaks loose?
It's the context in which you view it.
Now;
Originally posted by Raskolnikov
...the United States has no right to claim the wells under international law...
Really?
So,under what international law does the US have the right to remove a sovereign nation's regime from power?
Saddam is a muther****in' SOAFA(son of a funny animal) that needs to get his butt kicked.
Fine then.Under what international law does the US unilaterally have the right,the mandate,to remove a muther****in SOAFA from power?
I think the US's regard for international law,or indeed any international agrgeement(international law is a type of international agreement) is well documented.Look at the Kyoto treaty.Look at how Clinton handled the grenades issue.Millions of innocent people have been and continue to be maimed by grenades in Africa and elsewhere.But when an agreement that has potential to rid the world(or drastically reduce) of grenades,you punks want to keep them coz you need to keep the divide between North and south Korea littered with these widgets.You people will only "respect"(the quotes are mine.I think America has a crooked smile on her face when she talks about respect)international law when it serves your interest.Of course we all want to do things that serve our interests.But when your own interest does not go with the majority's interest,you don't give a **** what the rest of the world feels.And you have the economic and military might to "point out"(again,the quotes are mine) this fact.
I don't know why the question of mandate and right seems so lost on you.
I also don't know who allowed Bush to watch that movie,I think it was "Pay it Forward",where a guy is charged,and I think jailed,for a murder he is expected to commit in the future.Bush,if you'd read the fine print that comes at the movie's end,you'd have seen something to the effect that all the characters and events depicted in the motion picture were works of fiction.It doesn't work like that in real life.
Another thing,I gather that about three quarters of Americans are opposed to the war.If you are,and you won't stop your dumb ass president and his cronies,you won't be any better than your dumbass president and his cronies.In my mother tongue,there's a saying that,loosely translated,means "There's no difference between a thief and someone who watches him steal".You need to somehow,some way stop this madness.
Still another thing:
Someone was telling me that the US once propped up Saddam Hussein so as to counter the Iranian leader,the Ayatollah,who was vitriolly anti US,anti west.Then Saddam became what he became,and now the US,perhaps a bit ruefully,wants him out.Now,if that is true,I'm not surprised that suicide bombers do what they do.Coz I can start feeling,in an ever so slight way,the kind of anger that can be sparked by a bully's disregard for others,the bitter resistance sparked by oppression.
Do you guys remember how petty the "reasons" for the start of the last worls wars were?
Learn frrom history.
That war is not an option.
Under whatever circumstances.