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J. Wyatt Ehrenfels wrote: > As for compliance with weapons inspections? > Powell said it most succinctly, "Concessions are not > compliance." There is reason to believe that he is > rebuilding his weapons as fast as he is destroying > them. He destroys them late (he's had 12 years by one > interpretation and 6 months by another) and at a > snail's pace. And he destroys just enough to divide > the international community. What gives the USA the right to invade another country because it has weapons of mass destruction and has invaded other countries? If we were operating on some kind of ethical imperative, we would have invaded Israel long ago which defies UN resolutions, invades other nations routinely, tortures people, and has more nuclear weapons than Iraq could dream of. Not only that, the USA has a far worse record than Iraq when it comes to international law. It illegally mined the harbors of Nicaragua, it very likely used biological and chemical warfare against Cuba, it wreaked a human and ecological disaster in Vietnam with Agent Orange and blew 2 Japanese cities to kingdom come. "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were almost defeated and ready to surrender...in being the first to use it, we...adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages." ---Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org