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Originally posted by Undertoad
[b]Those child-killing sanctions were created by what body?

A. The oil-seeking, imperalist US
B. OPEC
C. Bush Sr. because he didn't have enough blood from the Contra thing
D. The military-industrial complex
E. The United Nations, that body all progressives worship at the feet of, which is critical to support because it prevents all the trouble in the world
[b]

e. And A. blocked those sanctions from being eased, rescinded or actually changed in any way, though not because of oil-seeking, imperialistic motives. Of course, over the past decade, Hussein has made something like $11B in oil sales with other countries in anticipation of the end of sanctions - none of which were with American companies. So maybe it was because of oil?

Hussein built how many "presidential palaces" in the last ten years instead of buying medication for those dead children?

A. None; he's a humanitarian
B. One; government officials are entitled to public housing
C. Two; he needs a dummy house to confuse the CIA and Mossad
D. Three; but he lets his sons take their BMWs to the beach house from time to time
E. Fifty-seven, covering more than 12 square miles of area, or about half the size of Manhattan

The materials restricted by sanctions really have nothing to do with building materials required for a palace. This is not to say he should be building palaces while his people starve, but how can anyone condone the death of 50-75k people a year because the medical resources that would save them are denied for political reasons?

I guess we should wait until he detonates a nuke-yoo-lar device in NYC. Or until we find out that he's gassing hundreds of thousands of his civilians. Yes.

So...by that logic...even though Hussein has made no attempt to detonate a nuclear weapon on US soil, and that it would be politically disastrous for him to do so, we should attack just because he might have the materials and has a beef with us? Well, then, we'll have to start lining up the countries. India, as a leader in the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War, wouldn't join our side against the Communists. So let's take them out. There are a lot of Muslim extremists in the Pakistani army, and they've got nukes...China was in our face about that whole plane thing a while back, so let's oust them. And you know what? The French are being pretty uppity about the whole Iraq thing, so let's knock them out too. That will give us strategic bases on every continent that has a nuclear presence, and then we'll be safe. We'll still have to build a missile defense system though...the President promised his friends in the defense industry that he would deliver it - and he's a man of his word, ready to return integrity to the office. Or some such outright lie.