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Now this is rather interesting! Here is the UK government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. As it is rather extensive I have yet to wade through the whole thing. Read it and see what you think.
The threat posed to international peace and security, when WMD are in the hands of a brutal and aggressive regime like Saddam’s, is real. Unless we face up to the threat, not only do we risk undermining the authority of the UN, whose resolutions he defies, but more importantly and in the longer term, we place at risk the lives and prosperity of our own people.
Well the UN has no authority, moral or practical, so that point means exactly nothing. On the last point, that is putting it mildly!
I rather suspect it will not change too many people’s minds regarding the justification of military action against Saddam Hussain’s regime as I have observed that the facts of the matter have only a limited bearing on the positions people take.
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Quite right on the subject of the UN. This is an organisation run for the benefit of kleptomeniacal dictators, it only has the aura of legitimacy among those who want it to have. At least it is democratic isn’t it? Frankly it is a sham operation at best. If it gains superstate authority we are all in it up to the neck or higher.
Sovreignty is personal in my book and not a matter for states or superstates in waiting like the UN.
Living in Brooklyn I have a sense that we might by a target for more of the 9/11 style of killing. Will it be small pox, a dirty radiation bomb or the real McCoy of the suit case variety?
If the worst happend the UN might go up in the ensuring conflagration.