Right on that edge of Capitalist and Republican.

i wondah how much da diffewence is btween “disagree strongly” and juss “disagree”. prob juss bess to say daT i am libertarian inclined.

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and this: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article9540.htm

TMC why did we sell WMD’s to the Iraqis (Saddam)? Why did we sell them during the times when people were gassed left and right in Iraq? Think there is a coincidence? (I know the rationale, but why the double standard?)

youre right, the french meant “well for all”! that’s why they sold weapons to the iraqis (a claim that even you do not make an attempt to deny).

2. France sells weapons to countries, even though they know those weapons will be aimed at the United States. Iran in the 1980s was a foolish deal to secure the release of hostages. Iraq was given support by the United States in the mid 1980s, since at that time, Iran was an outright enemy of the United States and a threat to the entire region.
The French promised Powell that if Iraq did not comply with the resolution which stated serious consequences, then they would support a resolution calling for immediate military action. Instead, the French tried to publically humiliate Powell (by demanding documents and information on a completely different topic than the one they had agreed to meet on), and told Saddam that there was no way the United States would ever invade Iraq no matter what the United States publically stated. France also threatened various countries if they dared support the United States in either the UN or militarily.
The war was not based on outright lies since Iraq was not obeying UN resolutions, EVERY intelligence agency in the world and the UN itself believed that Saddam still had weapons of mass destruction, and Saddam was giving aid and comfort to Al Qaeda members (as well as several notorious terrorists from the 1980s). In Iraq, the precursors to make the WMDs were found as well as the scientists and facilities needed to make them. They also found missiles in Iraq whose ranges were far in excess of those allowed by UN resolutions.
The Shiite mullahs in Iraq do not run the country and in fact have seen enough of the mismanagement in neighboring Iran, that they have no desire to run Iraq. Iraq is now a functioning democracy, the dictator who terrorized and killed millions has been removed from power, and the living conditions have been improved drastically. Our involvement in Iraq has also lead to the end of Libya’s weapons programs (which were far more advanced than anyone thought), Syria ending its military occupation of Lebanon, and more political freedoms in Egypt.
If we had not gone into Iraq, Saddam would have continued bribing his way around sanctions and would have eventually rebuilt his WMD stockpiles. We would have then had to go into Iraq later or wait to respond to a WMD attack orchestrated by Saddam himself or terrorists he supported. There was no reason to wait to topple Saddam’s regime and watch the situation continue to detoriate in Iraq, especially since we probably wouldn’t know until it was too late.

1) The last part of the test was not to determine your place on the spectrum, only for trivia purposes to see who voted for what candidate and such…look closer. Attention to detail does not seem to be your strongest characteristic.

2) Selling weapons to the enemies of the United States? Like when we sold weapons to Saddam or Iran in the 80’s. Regardless, America was not stabbed in the back at the UN, the war was based on outright lies (even Colin Powell is embarrassed that he had to over there and institute the circus), so I don’t see why they should have supported us (er… Bush). In fact, the French meant well for all. US would be better off and the Iraqi people would be better off. Maybe I’m not seeing something, but how is Bush’s plan to give the Mullahs control of 2/3 of Iraq with most of the Iraqi oil a worthwhile course of action. And don’t go on about how we had a spare 20,000 worthless soldiers and 300 billion dollars lying around doing nothing, that’s still not compelling enough to go to war.

So where did you land Michael