[kj] The war criminal Blair ?

[The Exorcist]

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You can thank me later.

At 07:34 PM 2/15/2010, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some 

>small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to 

>show the world we mean business."  - Michael Ledeen, National review 

>( a right wing USA publication) 

><http://article.nationalreview.com/267340/baghdad-delenda-est-part-two/jonah-goldberg>

>

>Bush declared he was launching war vs. Iraq based on Iraq's 

>violating UN sanctions (among any other thing he could think of). 

>Yet the UN also does not give latitude for individual countries, 

>from Senegal to the USA, to unilaterally decide for themselves when 

>and where to enforce individual UN rules. That must be decided jointly.

>

>The US and UK violated int'l law, laws and treaties to which thy 

>were signatories. Period. No gray areas here. It's crystal clear. 

>Crystal clear like 2+2=4.

>

>In reality, the US (and the UK) have acted as if they were the sole 

>actors responsible for enforcing violations, or whatever, as they 

>please, at their caprice, other countries' permission be damned - 

>via UN votes, or etc. The basis is: "The USA is an exceptional 

>nation among all nations in the world with an exceptional privilege 

>to enforce violations of law, or whatever it wants to, that no else 

>has the right to do, other's otes, resolutions, tec., be damned."

>

>Imagine if Iran had invaded Florida after the 2000 US elections for 

>violating nt'l treaties about democratic principles. It sounds 

>preposterous. but with the US and itslackeys in the West, it's just 

>'common sense."

>

>The justification for US war against Iraq, which has resulted in 

>tens of thousands of real, actual human deaths -not just email 

>chatter fodder, but actual humans with families - were predicated on 

>specious, cynical, selective, false, and unconscionable reasoning - 

>the sot of flimsy argumenttation that wouldnot be tolaretaed weree 

>it to come from, say, Syria. Blair followed suit and was indeed Bush's lap dog.

>

>-0liver

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