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Originally Posted by sneddog
Who cares what the UN is in favor of or not? That institutions is a failure. I asked someone here for one accomplishment of the UN and I am still waiting. What did we accomplish by invading Iraq? We removed a ruthless dictator who committed genocide on his own people, who ruled by murder and intimidation, who threatened his neighbors, and was pursuing WMD. Don't forget that before the war Saddam was found to be producing missiles that went beyond the UN mandated range, that could carry a cluster of exposives, and had not accounted for some 2 tons of chemical weapons material. Furthermore an even greater accomplishment is that the war has served as diversion for Islamic extremist keeping them focused there instead of here on our home soil.
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You seem to be implying that destroying the capacity of an oil producing state to produce oil at optimum capacity would have no effect on world oil prices. Would oil be more or less expensive if we had left the UN weapons inspectors in place, and simply helped upgrade Iraq's oil production facilities?
Since when has it been the responsibility of the US to police the world? Where, in our Constitution, does it say that Providing for the common Defense, really means, to involve ourselves in foreign entanglements, to the detriment of a form of democracy that includes state's rights?
That "ruthless" dictator, was put in power by the US, in the first place. In the second place, he was elected to office in a democratic election.
Simply stating that we shouldn't care about the rule of law, as embodied by an organization duly authorized with such concerns, does nothing to promote respect for the rule of law in the US.