Iraq

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Coney
Oh they have plenty of backbone.........they are, after all, going against the current world super-power on the grounds of evidence.

there is plenty of evidence that Iraq is not complying. Even Hans Blix has said they're not copmplying.

Also - if it wasn't for the US military force in the region at this moment - threatening Hussein - the inspectors wouldn't even be in there. So - unless the UN can enforce their resoltuions on their own - WITHOUT the US forcing them to - then the UN is useless.

As I've said before on other threads. I personally think we should pull out troops out of the world stage. Take them out of South Korea, Europe, leave NATO, leave the UN, leave Africa, leave the Middle East and build our missile shield and lock our borders a little tighter. Then you can deal with the world as you see fit. We never wanted to conquer the world - we haven't set out to conquer the world.

During the cold war - people complained that the US didn't spread it's democracy - that we sided with dictators. And that is true - the main goal of US policy was to contain Russia and make sure communism didn't spread across the globe. We succeeded there. NOw it is time to spread the democracy. We don't necessarily have to prop up dictators and hopefully we can bring democracy to the Middle East - where Eurooe failed to even try.

Told that Colin Powells lil' "presentation" wouldn't make a jot of difference didn't I

That's because nothing would make an ounce of difference until iraq lobs a nuclear weapon over Europe. Even then I don't think France or Germany would care as long as it wasn't them.