** This is a continuation of the civil part of the discussion from the thread on Israeli violations of UN edict. It's getting aggravating to get into a good discussion, and then have some jerks get the thread closed by being jerks. So if your comments involve calling people Nazis, go post on Free Republic instead or something. **
cuchulainn:
I see. We are going to topple all the dangerous or egregiously abusive governments we know of, and we just happen to be starting with Iraq.
According to Amnesty International (a bunch of lefties, but they are something of an authority on this subject), the following countries have particularly abusive governments (citizens arbitrarily arrested, tortured, murdered, raped, and/or "disappeared" by government agencies): Angola, Burundi, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Columbia, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Albania, Georgia, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Sri Lanka, China, and North Korea.
Furthermore, the following states have or are pursuing at least one type of WMD (bio, nuke, chem):
Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Serbia,
South Africa, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam (source: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd_state.htm)
I'm looking forward to our "dealing" with all of these 55 countries. Are we going to invade them too, or use diplomatic measures (like we did with Iraq)? I hope you'll forgive me for worrying that declaring war on 55 more countries would be a bit counterproductive to our safety, not to mention abhorrent to this nation's founding principles.
cuchulainn:
I see. We are going to topple all the dangerous or egregiously abusive governments we know of, and we just happen to be starting with Iraq.
According to Amnesty International (a bunch of lefties, but they are something of an authority on this subject), the following countries have particularly abusive governments (citizens arbitrarily arrested, tortured, murdered, raped, and/or "disappeared" by government agencies): Angola, Burundi, Central Africa Republic (CAR), Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guinea, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Columbia, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Albania, Georgia, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Sri Lanka, China, and North Korea.
Furthermore, the following states have or are pursuing at least one type of WMD (bio, nuke, chem):
Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Serbia,
South Africa, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam (source: http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/wmd_state.htm)
I'm looking forward to our "dealing" with all of these 55 countries. Are we going to invade them too, or use diplomatic measures (like we did with Iraq)? I hope you'll forgive me for worrying that declaring war on 55 more countries would be a bit counterproductive to our safety, not to mention abhorrent to this nation's founding principles.