Where's the contradiction? I have no respect for the UN, and I'm all in favor of using it to our advantage when we can, or trying to. How is that a contradiction?
The 'meeting' that supposedly happened in Eastern Europe was deemed to be a falsehood.
"Was deemed"? By whom? If you're talking about the Atta-in-Prague meeting, I don't deem it to be a falsehood.
The ties were tenable at best.
"The ties were tenable"? You're not even sure what you're trying to say.
Anyway, you're arguing with the War Powers resolution now. This might have made sense to do in late 2002. But that argument is over, and your preference lost, because it passed in late 2002. That's three and a half years ago. Are you going to get over it?
[Ultimately it is up to them.] Indeed it is and history tells us exactly what form of govenment they will institute.
Um, "it's up to them" and "history dictates their future" are self-contradictory. Anyway, just to turn the tables on the typical sort of arguments certain folks fling around here - since when do conservatives believe in the (rather Marxist!) notion of historical inevitabilities?
Nope, I see no problem whatsoever overcoming that mindset, they'll just give it right up when they see how great democracy is. Why it'll probably happen practically overnight!!
Projection. No one said it would "happen overnight". Bush has repeated time and time again that this war is a long war. The only people bitching that it's not happening "overnight", as if that's unacceptable, are people like you.
When will 'conservatives' wake up to the realization that it is not our business to determine the level of freedom or the internal affairs of other sovereign nations?
It's not our business, perhaps, until belligerent foreign governments make it our business.
Anyway, by your standard, the Holocaust was not our business, so, good luck with that.
Cute. The Holocaust was our business. Why? Because Woodrow Wilson involved this nation in a war that was none of its business 20 years prior, creating the vacuum in Germany. We had to fix the situation that we helped create. However, if FDR had not attacked Japan economically in the mid 1930s, Japan very well may have been used against Germany instead of joining the Axis powers against the Allies