In the speech President Bush made announcing the invasion of Iraq, he stated "All free nations have a stake...(some scary death metaphor)...and we're asking them to join us and many are doing so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others." The "yetis" (Saddam and his sons) were given 48 hours to leave Iraq and/or face the invasion. So there was no option there but lots of cognitive dissonance in that they're given 48 hours (and "us" implied) but we were still going in, and did, when perhaps another negotiation could have been made.
The facts about the head-of-state's sons should be reviewed, as the precedent it has set for U.S. (and "guilt by association" coalition forces, this time on us last time we were paid billions to secure Kuwait, the richest nation on earth whose diplomats lied over Iraqi "war crimes" committed inside Kuwait). The prior negotiation over the huge oil field under their border should have been a matter of international adjudication after Kuwait failed to come to the table with Iraq who claimed 80% of the field Kuwait was sucking dry under the border drawn by British occupation in the 1920s. Where one might ask was Lawrence and any pillars of wisdom in all of this cowboy justice? America calumniated?
Source: Newsvine - The shame of punishment as pornography
I couldn't publish this at Windows Live Spaces until I changed "pornography" to something else as "the item contains profanity" What the heck profanity is that? Again: "This entry's title contains language that is prohibited. Please delete the prohibited language from the title of the entry."
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