- It would pay us all to remember that the war in Iraq
was both unjust and illegal. We launched a war of aggression against a
country that was not attacking us, did not have the means to attack us,
and had never expressed any intention of attacking us.
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- Thus, America's attack against Iraq is the same as
Germany's
attack against Poland in 1939. We were the aggressor, pure and simple,
and for whatever real reason we attacked Iraq, it was not to save America
from any danger, imminent or otherwise.
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- You can believe the two whitewash jobs blaming everything
on intelligence if you wish to do so. I don't believe them. Our
intelligence
agencies make plenty of mistakes, but I don't believe that the information
they provided the Bush administration was as clear-cut as the Bush people
claimed. In other words, I think the Bush administration lied to the
American
people about weapons of mass destruction.
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- This illegal, unjust and unprovoked war against a
sovereign
country is what has alienated the rest of the world. This alienation runs
deep and will have very long-term implications.
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- No sane leader of any nation in the world can trust
America
anymore. We have demonstrated that if we desire to attack a nation, we
will fabricate the excuse and attack it, despite international law and
international opinion. We have demonstrated that a nation need not provoke
us or threaten us to become a victim of our aggression. We have said to
the world that the only law we respect is the law of the jungle, and that
might makes right. That's why so many people consider us to be a rogue
nation and a threat to world peace.
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- The sad part is that the American people have been so
sheeplike. They believed the blarney about weapons of mass destruction,
even the stupid parts such as Bush claiming Iraq's tiny little drone
airplanes
could attack the U.S. When those lies were exposed, they believed that
the war was justified by Saddam Hussein's cruelty. We've slept with many
bloody dictators, including Saddam. Now they believe that we went there
to spread democracy.
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- That's a bunch of hooey. The present interim government
is corrupt to the core. The British Broadcasting Corp. did a lot of
interviews
with Iraqis, and not one of them mentioned wanting democracy or freedom.
They all said they want a strong government that can provide security and
end corruption.
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- Given the world's distrust and alienation, how do you
think the Bush administration is going to garner support to stop the
proliferation
of nuclear weapons? Do you think Russia, China, India and other countries
love us? Do you think even the Europeans will not try to weaken our global
monopoly on the use of force?
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- There is a great irony here. Imperialism produces exactly
the effects that the critics of isolation claim it produces. Imperialism
isolates America. An American policy of noninterference and cooperation
would produce allies.
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- I don't intend to blame the Bush administration entirely.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats are committed to an imperialistic
policy. Nor was the war against Iraq the first instance of unprovoked and
illegal acts of aggression. We invaded Grenada and Panama, and launched
aerial attacks against Libya and Serbia.
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- Don't take too much comfort in the fact that we are,
at the moment, the 800-pound gorilla. Everybody hates the gorilla and will
try to do everything to weaken it. Given the venality and incompetence
of our government, the shaky state of our economy, the apathy of our people
and the decadence of our culture, I don't think we'll be king of the jungle
for very much longer.
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