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John Kerry quotes

42 durable postsStarted 2004-06-27Latest 2004-06-29
#215020Post 41 of 42

[quote=brakada] I bitched, although Serbia was a bit different than Iraq and the intervention was a "bit" more justified. [/quote]

Negative. The only thing that made it a "bit" more justified is that genocide was happening in Europe. And all the Europeans were saying "OMG we must mobilize against this new Hitler". Believe it or not, Pres. Clinton didn't really want in on the deal, especially when he found out the rules of engagement. But he helped fulfilled our duty anyway because we said in NATO we would help eliminate potential threats to the Western European way of life. Thats why we are world leaders.....we actually make good on our promises to our allies, instead of coming up with lame excuses to cop out and then leading and global opposition movement. As if copping out wasn't disgraceful enough.

Anyways, there were still people getting tortured/detained when we arrived in Iraq. And Saddam had been ethnically cleansing the Kurds and Shiites for over ten years. In fact, he actually used them to test his chemical weapons. That's right, in the West, where we have stiff opposition to people testing shampoo on dogs and cats, we sat back and watched a man test chemical weapons on women and children.

#215058Post 42 of 42

[quote=mylexicon] Negative. The only thing that made it a "bit" more justified is that genocide was happening in Europe.

And all the Europeans were saying "OMG we must mobilize against this new Hitler". Believe it or not, Pres. Clinton didn't really want in on the deal, especially when he found out the rules of engagement. But he helped fulfilled our duty anyway because we said in NATO we would help eliminate potential threats to the Western European way of life. Thats why we are world leaders.....we actually make good on our promises to our allies, instead of coming up with lame excuses to cop out and then leading and global opposition movement. As if copping out wasn't disgraceful enough. [/quote]

As I said I disapproved the bombing of Serbia...

But yes, the genocide was happening in Europe and Milosevic was rejecting any peace offers. Also (IMO again) the bombing was more justified because Milosevic inflicted directly or inderectly a lot of conflicts in a very unstable region. There were 4 wars in less than 10 years and thus he deserved to be punished.

How many wars did Sadam start in the last 10 years? I am not saying he wasn't a threat to security of the local region, but his power was slowly fading. He did a lot of horrible things during his reign, but he was starting to co-operate. At least regarding WMDs. I would understand if Iraq was conquered after Desert Storm, but now the attack wasn't that justified.

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