Bill:
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| > I'm for fixing our problems at home, and kicking the U.N. out.
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| Sadly, I see that
Why should you be sad?
I'm for the U.S. Constitution, its founding principles and the republican
form of government it promotes.
While we seldom live up to those principles in practice anymore, they are
the ideals to which we should aspire.
The U.N.'s principles are primarily socialistic, and not compatible with
those of our founding.
If we are to have a world system, I want one based on the U.S. Consitution.
That's all.
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| > Let's fix our Republic. Then things like foreign adventurism will be
| much
| > harder for our politicians to justify. It was primarily on behalf of UN
| > resolutions, and an authorization from Congress that affirmed these
| > resolutions, I remind you, that we invaded Iraq
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| Didn't I recently post a link to a very long list of UN resolutions on the
| ME that the US ignored or thwarted? We can't pick and choose and
| selectively enforce those that we like, and use those as justification for
| an invasion, while at the same time ignoring those we don't like. That's
| BS politics.
The U.N. is the very definition of B.S. politics. It was created merely to
counter balance the two superpowers and their various satellites. Like NATO,
its usefulness has passed. Unfortunately, entrenched bureaucracies never
die, they just hire new marketing firms, and find new reasons for their
existence.
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| > - even if Germany, France
| > and Russia did chickenshit out of it, when they realized we were
| serious,
| > and would probably discover "the truth" about their little oil-for-cover
| > deal with Saddam.
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| I'm not inclined to place (pick a country) over the US, but I believe in
| this particular case (the invasion), the countries that were against it
| were right.
They weren't right or wrong: they were just protecting their own
pocketbooks. It turns out Saddam had given many of their politicians
numerous "incentives" to oppose the US action. All under the guise of
humanitarian do-goodism.
I'm surprised you aren't more vocally outraged about the oil-for-food
program. I would have thought an idealistic guy like you would be all over
Kofi & Son for that charade, which - you must confess - gives guys like me a
lot of ammunition for our position.
- Bob
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| Bill
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| > - Bob
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