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#198313
Mike
YOU FAIL SO MUCH!
4/1/2007 7:14:55 PM
#198582
Patches
If you meant defending the pocketbooks of the nation's rich and powerful, then yeah, you'd be right.
4/2/2007 12:57:31 AM
#198588
anti-nonsense
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Thank you.
4/2/2007 1:12:12 AM
#198603
flipper
Lying to the American people about WMD's and 9/11, and War-profiteering are legitimate causes for war? Where the hell is that in your Bible? \"Jesus wept.\"
4/2/2007 1:37:41 AM
#198608
KommissarKrunch
I fail to see how this is a war of self defense. Bush's war is a war of aggression, not of defense.
4/2/2007 1:58:14 AM
#198619
[i]McCulloch[/i]
Not lying for Jesus, but lying for Bush!
4/2/2007 2:11:32 AM
#198620
Beccs
So why did your President lie to the world for his reasons for that war?
If it was so just, and self defence, why couldn't he give REAL evidence instead of falsifying it?
4/2/2007 2:13:10 AM
#198627
mkb
Maybe Bro. Randy is actually an Iraqi?
4/2/2007 2:19:16 AM
#198647
xMinionX
Iraq /=/ 9/11. The end.
4/2/2007 3:05:58 AM
#198657
Papabear
So, because we were attacked on 9/11, we are at war in Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with that attack, and you think that constitutes self-defense? You're an idiot.
4/2/2007 3:31:13 AM
#198661
James
A 'pre-emptive strike' (I think that's what Bush and Blair called it) does not equal self-defense. Hell, I supported the war at first because Saddam Hussein was a dickhead, but their real motives were clear: oil. As evidenced by the fact that Kim Jong Il, Robert Mugabe and various other dicks are still in power.
4/2/2007 3:44:57 AM
#198670
ZugTheMegasaurus
Sentence one: often true.
Sentence two: painfully false.
4/2/2007 4:08:44 AM
#198690
Wet Walnuts
This is what happens when you read the Bible but not the newspapers.
Wet Walnuts (formerly JaredM)
4/2/2007 4:47:59 AM
#198745
Prager
Do all nations have the same right to self-defence? If yes, then your answer fails. If no, then your answer still fails.
4/2/2007 7:31:58 AM
#198755
TheUnholyMint
Sure it's justification, as opposed to the real reason.
4/2/2007 7:53:07 AM
#198759
Øyvind
Not fundie, just neo-con propaganda.
4/2/2007 4:00:13 PM
#198763
Doctor Whom
Not fundie, just neo-con propaganda.
True, and there's enough material out there for a \"Neocons Say the Darndest Things.\"
4/2/2007 4:05:39 PM
#198899
alexia
For the last time - Iraq did not attack us!
4/2/2007 5:20:27 PM
#198942
Esjeur
Yup, when Iraq attacked us on 9-11 we had to get even. Oh wait. That's not right.
4/2/2007 5:59:21 PM
#199065
TDR
\"That is the justification for the war we are currently in.\"
wow, he actually said it himself. There's a difference between a justification after the fact and a just cause before the fact.
4/2/2007 6:59:51 PM
#199298
Brain_In_A_Jar
Try to keep up, Mr Randy; \"self defence\" was the official line cited as the reason to invade first (and that's a damn stretch in my book anyway) only when your people were able to bullshit the world into a mania about weapons of mass destruction; now that Iraq has been invaded and there is not a fucking shred of evidence for the promised masses of terrifying weapons, it is now more obvious than ever that Iraq never posed a threat to America (The only Americans anywhere that are, or ever were, in any danger from Iraq are the ones currently occupying the country). The new party-line, which they're now acting as if they had said all along, is that it was to remove a tyrannical dictator and free the Iraqi people, as if this makes it somehow OK the war was started on false pretenses.
If it has actually done Iraq some good, then that is something to salvage from the current mess, but it wasn't the reason war was declared and therefore, it still should not have happened. I'd venture to suggest that America would never have allowed the war had \"freeing Iraqis\" been the reason given at the outset, and that is why it s not a valid excuse now.
4/2/2007 9:30:02 PM
#199303
Old Viking
Damned right, Bro. And if we'd determined that the perpetrators of
9/11 were Europeans it would have justified an invasion of Belgium.
4/2/2007 9:35:54 PM
#199344
Pix
Training Sunnis to kill Shiites and Shiites to kill Sunnis is hardly self-defense. FAIL.
4/2/2007 10:08:38 PM
#199421
Sandman
Except of course for the fact that Iraq was not even the slightest threat to the United States before we invaded.
4/2/2007 10:55:36 PM
#199434
Foster Disbelief
Yeah, because Iraq blew up the World trade center, and was just about to invade Florid...
Oh, wait.
4/2/2007 11:05:08 PM
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