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Myanmar is not a threat to the Untied States, does not sponser suicide bombers to attack the United States, does not have massive illegal stock piles of nuclear fission material, does not have stock piles of checmical weapons, and as far as I am aware that was a movie. In reality Myanmar is a socialist country controlled by the military. You should research their history because it actually sounds similar to the direction we are headed in terms of economic mismanagement, single party rule, and forced "volunteerism" as our president is now proposing. It is a case study in what happens when government becomes to powerful. In the case of North Korea they DO have nuclear weapons. It is virtually impossible to depose a military dictatorship armed with nuclear weapons. North Korean government is evil, just plain evil, and their people are literally prisoners in their own country forced to work for a crazy little man with a god complex. This is in fact the very reason we attacked Iraq. Now Saddam is gone, his weapons programs and stock piles of WMDs and WMD materials have been removed, and UN weapons inspectors will be able to provide oversight in ensuring that illegal weapons programs are not resumed- which is by the way what we asked for in an ultimatum. Everyone forgets that. It was Saddam's decision to be invaded in the first place, rather than allow UN weapons inspectors in as he was legally bound to do as a stipulation of the CEASE FIRE agreement we made with him after the first gulf war. The United States had technically been in a state of war (with a cease fire agreement) with Iraq since the first war began, no one likes to point that out either for some reason. Was the war mismanaged? Maybe, the exit strategy could have used a little more work. But the US did remove a truly evil person and saved a lot of lives by doing so. We stood up against evil and won, we made sacrifices to do the right thing. Opponents of this war, and they have a right to their opinion, never seem to think that something bad would have happenned if Saddam had successfully proven that he could do whatever he pleased, continuing his policies of destroying peoples' lives for his own amusement, invading neighboring countries, and yes, running illegal weapons programs designed to make it so costly to invade that no one would do it. The US did the right thing here, it cost money, lives, and a lot of bad press, but did it anyway because it was the right thing to do. IMO :thumbup:
Senate approves Iraq war resolution
Administration applauds vote
Friday, October 11, 2002 Posted: 12:35 PM EDT (1635 GMT)
ON CNN TV
Watch SHOWDOWN: IRAQ anchored by CNN's Wolf Blitzer weekdays at noon (ET) for in-depth coverage of the conflict with the latest news and debate from around the world.
FACT BOX• "The president is authorized to use the armed forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to (1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq, and (2) enforce all relevant United Nation Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq."
• The resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of any military action against Iraq and submit, at least every 60 days, a report to Congress on the military campaign.
• The resolution does not tie any U.S. action to a U.N. resolution.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.
Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133.
Check out the very last paragraph. No matter what is stated today about using the war to steal oil, or that it was in retaliation for 9-11 here is what the resolution that was passed on the days before we went to war with Iraq.
Actually YOU are way off the mark. While Russians and Chinese certainly have their share of human rights abuses they do not engage in the use of WMDs against their own people. They do not have sick and twisted public displays of torture, sexual assault, and murder. They don't have a policy of torturing their Olympic atheletes to death for failure to win medals, for instance. What they DO have are enough nukes to wipe out the human race which is a buzz kill in terms of invading someone. While I too watched the new Rambo movie
