Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have been killed
I never endorsed war, I was just making the point that the countries involved were forced into it. What should they have done? Saddam had several "Palaces" that Hans Blix's inspection team were not allowed into, should the USA et al have just sat on their hands whilst Saddam was potentially manufacturing WMDs?
Perhaps you should try putting yourself in the place of the Iraqi whose life has been destroyed by this war? Or don't you have the guts to do that?
Whilst I have not been afffected by this war, I have had relatives that have been casualties of other conflicts. War is an ugly thing and no one ever wins it.
PS perhaps you should not accuse people of not having "guts" whilst posting AC.
stop warmongering, and soldiers will stay in one piece
IANL but Iraq repeatedly violated UN Security council resolutions 678, 687, 1441. I'd say that the Iraq conflict was the absolute last resort. Whilst the countries that went in were foolhardy not to get UN Security Council authorisation they were hardly warmongering, Saddam brought it on himself.
It's not always an evil government that's to blame. My experience of living in the UK is that people wont discuss things like adults; if they have a problem with something you are doing, they will just record it and denounce you to the authorities. This may not be the same for everyone in the UK but I am very disturbed about the amount of people I have come across that are constantly snooping on their neighbours. Admittedly this isn't helped by the government, who encourage it, but I don't think overthrowing it would neccessarily change things.
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Yeah this Times article I read:
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/
said how the females may be fashioning weapons to compete with the males to get animal protein as they are not as strong.
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have been killed
I never endorsed war, I was just making the point that the countries involved were forced into it. What should they have done? Saddam had several "Palaces" that Hans Blix's inspection team were not allowed into, should the USA et al have just sat on their hands whilst Saddam was potentially manufacturing WMDs?
Perhaps you should try putting yourself in the place of the Iraqi whose life has been destroyed by this war? Or don't you have the guts to do that?
Whilst I have not been afffected by this war, I have had relatives that have been casualties of other conflicts. War is an ugly thing and no one ever wins it.
PS perhaps you should not accuse people of not having "guts" whilst posting AC.
stop warmongering, and soldiers will stay in one piece
IANL but Iraq repeatedly violated UN Security council resolutions 678, 687, 1441. I'd say that the Iraq conflict was the absolute last resort. Whilst the countries that went in were foolhardy not to get UN Security Council authorisation they were hardly warmongering, Saddam brought it on himself.
It's not always an evil government that's to blame. My experience of living in the UK is that people wont discuss things like adults; if they have a problem with something you are doing, they will just record it and denounce you to the authorities. This may not be the same for everyone in the UK but I am very disturbed about the amount of people I have come across that are constantly snooping on their neighbours. Admittedly this isn't helped by the government, who encourage it, but I don't think overthrowing it would neccessarily change things.