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To: Pelham; rintintin; eddie willers; RubinBoomer; 867V309; OrangeHoof
None of these resolutions were cobbled together like a middle schooler’s term paper. Diplomats and politicians live by words all their lives, and laboriously parsed each phrase to provide clear direction to the United States in its mandate to lead this coalition. Choosing “restore international peace and security in the area” for the text brought into play a most definite precedent.

Remember that in passing Resolutions 687 and 1441 the permanent members could have restricted his authority, but they incorporated all previous resolutions without any modifications and that left the decision with Bush #2 as their chosen commander in chief.

The war against Saddam Hussein was resumed because Bush #2 finally obeyed UN and confirming Congressional mandates. The United States, heading a coalition exceeding that Churchill and Roosevelt assembled to confront Hitler’s Germany, toppled Hussein’s regime, and forced the UN to confront the reason for its’ existence.

The opinions regarding Bush #2 and Iraq are so strongly rooted in media and opposition declamations that they gain rather than lose stability when factual arguments are presented. The worse they fare in debates; the more persuaded adherents are that deeper ground must exist which contrary arguments cannot reach, regardless of their substance.

Atlantic Charter (twenty six countries) http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atlantic-charter

The Coalition of the Willing (thirty six countries) http://web.stanford.edu/class/e297a/The%20Coalition%20of%20the%20Willing.htm

71 posted on 02/23/2020 9:07:25 PM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Retain Mike; rintintin; eddie willers; RubinBoomer; 867V309; OrangeHoof

Resolutions 687 and 1441 authorize driving Iraq’s army out of Kuwait, 687, and ordering Iraq to let UN inspectors back into Iraq, 1441.

That’s all that they say.

Claiming that they authorize an invasion of Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein is an exercise in arguing from silence.

With your logic anything not expressly prohibited is somehow authorized.

It amazes me how Bush jr’s apologists don’t want the buck to stop with him.

“The UN made me do it”.

At least Harry Truman had the balls to accept responsibility for his decisions.


72 posted on 02/23/2020 9:29:38 PM PST by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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