“After all, what profiteth a man if he gain regime change in Iraq, and yet lose the whole world order in the process?”
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Anti-Semites against the war.
Remember, folks: the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
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‘A deadline helps concentrate the mind.’
As awful as war is, opponents of military action have lost this round. Congress has already approved military action. The U.N. has already told Iraq that it must comply or face “serious consequences.”
On Stephen C. Pelletiere’s contention that Saddam Hussein did not gas the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
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Buehrens on Iraq today.
If the legitimacy of the United Nations was in question in 1998, today President Bush is disarmingly explicit in his threat to go after Iraq alone.
In 1998, President John Buehrens wrote, “The resolutions of the United Nations must be enforced… [T]he consequences of diplomatic failure will belong squarely with Saddam Hussein, as will those of any attempt to use civilians as human shields.”
The difference between a “coalition of the willing” and U.N.-authorized force is nothing less than the credibility of international law.
“The emotional leitmotifs of anti-Americanism are resentment mingled with envy; those of anti-Europeanism are irritation mixed with contempt.”
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Decisions.
President Bush’s case for war is different than the one that “reluctant hawks” like the liberals listed here have endorsed.
Liberals should describe how right-wing policies threaten things that most Americans value, and they should do so in a way that doesn’t borrow an ounce of rhetoric from the radical left.