Ouch!

[A Black Falcon]

You (Darunia/Weltall) are so dumb... why in the WORLD should Germany, France, and Russia do what we want when we are 1) attacking them (see Rumsfeldt's 'Old Europe' insults, and the innumerable insults Bush has thrown Europe's way) 2) belittling them (they are the biggest force behind the UN, I'd say, and you idiots make it sound like that organization isn't working -- a completely false assumption as Iraq shows) and 3) denying them any authority ("please support our war, even though we won't give you one whit of real power there and will hog it, and all the contracts, for ourself!", as well as "the UN will have authority in Iraq over our dead bodies"...)...

They'd have to be mentally insane to go along! As for the nations that did... Britain, Spain, and Italy had rulers who did it against the strong wills of their people. They believed the US intelligence. They got burned. As for Eastern Europe, they're small, weak nations and want to suck up to us as much as possible... oh, and they do have a more legitimate reason for disliking Sadaam as they have much more recent memories of tyrants.


See no one is saying Sadaam was a good man or anything. Just that flouting (or, really, breaking) international law to do it, and doing it in the way we did, with no legal backing, is the worst possible way to change a regime. It sends a horrible message to the world and creates FAR more evil than it solves! It's amazing that you're still saying that we are SAFER after getting rid of Sadaam... I know a while back Howard Dean got burned for saying that capturning Sadaam didn't make us any safer, but he's absolutely right...