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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:13 PM Original message |
What IWR would have done if Gore was president. |
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slick8790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Are you really arguing the IWR was a good thing badly executed? ....Really? n/t |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Absolutely. |
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The Anti-Bush (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Are you feeling okay? |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. The IWR didn't send anyone to Iraq. |
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slick8790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. The IWR was a blank check for Bush to invade whenever he felt like. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. The Congress cannot give a "blank check" for violating International Law. |
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slick8790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Most other presidents would have been smart enough to not bring it to the floor in the first place. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. Disagree. The UN Security Council kicked the inspections into overdrive. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. There were no inspectors in Iraq between 1998 and until after the IWR. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Nope, inspections started after Security Council Resolution 1441 passed. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. The IWR was responsible for that resolution. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. That's debatable at best. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. After 4 years of inaction, I doubt the Security Council was going |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. If Clinton had listened to Blix, Ritter, et al., he should've gone ahead and removed the sanctions. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I think probably the "Oil for Food" program was responsible for |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I don't think the IWR was good policy. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. utterly ridiculous. It is extremely doubtful that there would have |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. With Gore, there would not have been a IWR, or a 9/11. |
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TooBigaTent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
7. There would not have been a 9/11 attack because a Democratic administration |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Please see my misplaced comment below. |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. Maybe not 9/11. But *something* needed to be done about Iraq. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
12. What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly? Had Alex the Great had a Piper Cub plane? nt |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I just get tired of people taking the heat off of Bush by insinuating |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. And it's ignorant because they don't understand how govt./diplomacy work... |
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Ravy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I know. Look at some of the posters on this thread who thought |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. The Iraq invasion was a manufactured profit-war by the neo-cons. |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yeah. War resolutions are good. |
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