r u sure? you have not read some of the released
documents, but, once again to know about them you'd
have to go to the right government sites and get
beyond the 6:00 alphbet soup evening news. 


--- Anthony Arnold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I don't know what we're currently trying Hussein and
> his brother for, but
> they had no involvement in September 11th, so why
> are we over there besides
> to take our frustration out on somebody.  But on the
> other hand, if I would
> become the president tomorrow, I wouldn't pull out
> immediately as some would
> like to see, I would personally like to fix what my
> country has done.  It's
> like if I accidentally dropped a cigarette on
> somebody's carpet and it burns
> a hole, I would feel oppogated to replace their
> carpet, no matter what.  
> 
> Thanks, 
> Anthony 
> Visit my website at www.anthonyarnold.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Kendall David Corbett
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 6:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: was dental question now iraq war.
> 
> Ken,
> 
> Whether the Iraqis are better off is a tough call;
> they may (or may not,
> some would argue) have greater civil liberties, but
> their lives may be
> in greater immediate danger than they were under
> Hussein. =20
> 
> On the opposite side of that coin, many would argue
> that we in the US
> are safer, but have had our civil liberties eroded. 
> It was said in the
> immediate post 9/11 period that the terrorists
> wanted to destroy the
> American (read US) way of life, and they have made a
> start toward that,
> IMHO.
> 
> As I read UN Resolution 1441, it doesn't explicitly
> give member states
> of the UN permission to undertake unilateral
> military action against
> Iraq.  That does seem to be permissible under UN
> resolutions 678 and
> 687, which were signed in 1990 and 1991,
> respectively. =20
> 
> My point is that the armed forces presently engaged
> as coalition
> partners do not wear UN uniforms, and as such are
> not formally
> recognized as UN forces.
> 
> Kendall=20
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 4:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: was dental question now iraq war.
> 
>   actually resolution 1441 passed without desent,
> but,
> then when it got time to actually follow through,
> then
> the germans, french, and russians backpeddled and
> would not follow through. 1441 gave any member
> nation
> the right to enforce it. the u.s. and the brits with
> a
> few more did exactly that.=20
>   it appears that the intelligence worldwide was
> wrong
> on lagre amounts of weapons of mass destruction
> unless
> you believe that ranking iragi general that says
> they
> flew them to syria. the media is ignoring him. i'd
> guess some of you have heard nothing about him up to
> just this email. but, either way i'll ask the
> question. do you think iragis are better off now
> than
> before the invasion? your honest answer should
> pretty
> well tell you if the war is right or wrong. don't
> wealsel out, they are either better off without
> saddam
> or they were better off with him.=20
> 
> --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Let me send this again, so the link stays intact!
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kendall David Corbett
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:59 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: dental question
> >=20
> > Anthony,
> >=20
> > President Bush tried to get UN approval for the
> war
> > in Iraq, and was
> > turned down.  He then formed a coalition of
> partner
> > nations for the war,
> > which included the US, England, Australia, Canada,
> > and a few others that
> > I can't recall right now.
> >=20
> > This is a link to an article in the Washington
> Post
> > from August of 2002
> > that talks about members of the present President
> > Bush's administration
> > saying that the President didn't even need
> > Congressional approval for
> > the present Iraq war, since Congress had approved
> > the use of military
> > force in 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the
> > Kuwaiti government made
> > a formal request for help.
> >=20
> >
>
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61040-2002Aug25?language=3Dprinter
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > Kendall=20
> >=20
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > redundant!)
> >=20
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> the
> > unreasonable one
> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> > Therefore, all
> > progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> >=20
> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> >=20
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anthony Arnold
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]=20
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:29 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: dental question
> >=20
> > I know I should have paid more attention back in
> > school when we were
> > covering this, but does the President of the
> United
> > States have to win
> > approval from the UN before going into places like
> > Iraq or Iran?  Does
> > he
> > only need congress's? =20
> >=20
> > Thanks,=20
> > Anthony=20
> > Visit my website at www.anthonyarnold.net
> >=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cerebral Palsy List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> > Of
> > ken barber
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:35 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: dental question
> >=20
> > you guys would never admit it, but, you know i
> have
> > a
> > point. someone can pass gass in a room full of
> > democrats and bush will be blamed for the
> stench.=20
> 
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