23rd March 2003, 1:08 AM
1441 did mention "consequences", but NOT military action. I'm not just saying that it wouldn't count as legal... I'm basing the statement on a article I read inte the paper that said that international law experts agree that if the case was attempted that 1441 authorized military action, it would lose. It does not.
That is a true statement... if Bush and his team had ANY diplomatic skills or tact, we'd either be in Iraq with a TRUE cooaltion and UN support or would be supporting stronger inspections... but Bush and the hawks clearly did not want that. They tried REALLY hard to (and succeeded in!) making this a unilateral war with very little outsiide support. As someone on PBS said yesterday, its as if the hawks who Bush takes his orders from were afraid that the world would actually agree with us on the issue and make some multilateral action and did their best to sabotage that and get them to hate us... because there isn't much else to explain how Bush did SO MANY THINGS to enrage the rest of the world in so short a timespan...
Well it worked. Really well. And now the world HATES us.
Have you noticed that yet? When terrorism increases in the near future you will... because the Arab world is now VERY, VERY mad with us. This war is a gift on a silver platter for people like Bin Laden... it gives him a instant new army of angry people who want to kill us. Great job in increasing security there, Bush & co!
That is a true statement... if Bush and his team had ANY diplomatic skills or tact, we'd either be in Iraq with a TRUE cooaltion and UN support or would be supporting stronger inspections... but Bush and the hawks clearly did not want that. They tried REALLY hard to (and succeeded in!) making this a unilateral war with very little outsiide support. As someone on PBS said yesterday, its as if the hawks who Bush takes his orders from were afraid that the world would actually agree with us on the issue and make some multilateral action and did their best to sabotage that and get them to hate us... because there isn't much else to explain how Bush did SO MANY THINGS to enrage the rest of the world in so short a timespan...
Well it worked. Really well. And now the world HATES us.
Have you noticed that yet? When terrorism increases in the near future you will... because the Arab world is now VERY, VERY mad with us. This war is a gift on a silver platter for people like Bin Laden... it gives him a instant new army of angry people who want to kill us. Great job in increasing security there, Bush & co!