On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:58:52 GMT, "David R. Birch"
wrote:

I guess I incorrectly assumed that this was common knowledge. Our
government run schools have apparently seen to it that most Americans
are utterly clueless in such matters.

No, most of us are well aware of this, and most of us recognize that Iraq was
not complying with the post Desert Storm conditions.

Per the UN?

They were probably too busy buying illicit Iraq oil to notice!

Using those Halliburton pipelines? To Saudi Arabia? To Kuwait?
To US oil firms?

Clue: Looks like those winger lies have been debunked.
The UN's inspectors had reported what was going on to the UN
security council ..... looks like the US did not want to interfere ...

Put simply, aggressive war is immoral, defensive war is not.

In the case of Bush's present war against Iraq, it's plain to see that
it's immoral...it takes no sophisticated moral reasoning, IMO.

You think we should not have thrown Iraq out of Kuwait? This is one war, not two.


Bush & Cheney & Rumsfled should not have approved the invasion
in the first place then.

You mean the return?

Missing more clues?
Sounds like Saddam just took over a but more of Kuwait than he was
supposed to ... or it was a trap to later justify a war ....

Obviously, that would depend very much on the circumstances, no? It may
ultimately boil down to what's in the heart of the person who does the
killing, i.e., it may not be possible for an observer to always
determine whether a certain action taken by a certain person was
morally proper on not.

This is in part why, in my view, the most important qualification of a
politician or statesmen is his moral competency; his experience in
matters of state, is secondary, at best.

Unfortunately, our political system has demonstrated an inability to select
moral, competent leaders. Since Truman, anyway.


So don't be praising any wingers ....

Does your knee hurt when it jerks that hard? Funny how Cliff and jerk go so well
together.

But here I am, replying to a buggy piece of software.

And a bit confused too G.
--
Cliff