I don't agree with Code Pink very much, but on Bush's decision to invade Iraq Code Pink got it right. *Vigilante and Oldstyle had it all wrong. But we can see within the following exchange that *Vigilante and Oldstyle had to flee from the solid education that I was trying to present to them:
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Obama can get away with the same things that they castigated Bush for. Classic liberal BS
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I castigated Bush only when he decided to kick UN inspectors out and then invade Iraq over alleged WMDs being hidden by the regime there. <> I have not seen any instance where Obama has started a war by kicking out UN inspectors. When you find that situation then you make your statement. But until then your statement is false. Over 90 percent of Americans supported Bush going after terrorists in Afghanistan after 911. That means most Americans didn't castigate Bush until he abandoned the war on terrorists and went after Saddam Hussein for no good reason to justify starting a war.
*NF: Have you seen any instance where Obama has started a war by kicking or forcing out UN inspectors because the war he started would get them injured or killed?
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What are you talking about, <> Bush gave the U.N. the date we were going to invade, and the inspectors left 2 days before by U.N. orders! Saddam broke 17 U.N. resolutions AFTER Gulf War one, and was shooting at our planes in the NO FLY zone.... I just love it when 2 digit IQ'd subversives make up their own history!
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Are you dense? That is what I said... Bush kicked the inspectors out. As to the broken resolutions... Bush signed onto UN Res 1441 in November 2002 which meant all the prior violations by Iraq were on hold as Iraq was given a FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLY by letting the inspectors come in and finish disarming Iraq peacefully. Bush violated UN Res 1441 not Saddam Hussein. You have been entirely fooled by Dubya. <> Iraq ceased shooting at US and UK planes who were bombing Iraq in the summer of 2002 when UN Res 1441 was passed and Iraq let the UN inspectors come back in. <> And Saddam went further than just letting the inspectors back in. He offered to let the US military and FBI and CIA come in to work alongside the UN inspectors to find WMD if they thought some was there. That offer came in December 2002 and Bush did not pursue it or even consider it. Bush is lying to you when he claims he exhausted all peaceful means prior to deciding on war.
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The U.N. FORCED the inspectors out so they didn't get killed in the fighting! Saddam VIOLATED 16 resolutions, I'm sure that these must have been the equivalent of Res 1441.... Saddam continued to violate these resolutions! Now please STFU and learn something!
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1441 was the last Resolution prior to the US and UK invasion. If you read 1441 you would not have wasted your time and everyone's time listing over a decade of Iraq's history of violations. Of course Saddam violated those resolutions prior to 1441 (November 2002). But 1441 specifically states that Iraq was therein given a FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLY. Saddam did not continue to violate those resolutions because he was never ever and never came close to being in violation of 1441 for not taking his FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLY.<> If you have any record of the UNSC voting that Iraq did not take his FINAL OPPORTUNITY to COMPLY with all those resolutions under 1441 then lets see it. I know it does not exist. Bush and Blair tried to set a deadline for 1441 and the UNSC fifteen members were opposed to setting a deadline and the majority sought to keep the inspections going and avoid war. <> So you do not know anything about what went down which is obvious by your statement "Saddam VIOLATED 16 resolutions, I'm sure that these must have been the equivalent of Res 1441.... " ,,, You have no clue what 1441 was about do you? Your 'sure that these 'must have been' the equivalent of Res 1441" The equivalent? You had no idea what you were typing did you?
*NF: If you have any record of the UNSC that the UNSC determined that Saddam Hussein did not take his FINAL OPPORTUNITY to COMPLY with 1441 then lets see it.