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>>WAR is not a child's "time out" or simple disciplinary action to an unruly child.
>>I am convinced that President Bush BELIEVES that it his his DUTY to do this. That doesn't make it any more right. Where is his sense of duty to the world at large, to the civilians who will be killed and to exercising the restraint more becoming the world's ONLY super power?????
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>>Saddam will have earned war when he attacks some country directly or by proxy through terrorism. That's the way the world works. Especially the free and democratic world.
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>Would you still say the same thing if the country he attacks was Canada by detonating a "dirty nuke" in Toronto?

Of course I would. And let me tell you, your home security is far more visible than ours. That not only leads me to believe that it is more thorough than ours, but it also makes me feel that we have a great chance of being the "backup" location for any dirty deed in the works that might be thwarted by your security.

The position that Israel was in in 1967 is a case where preemptive action was, in my opinion, justified. The position of anyone today vis-a-vis Iraq is in no way comparable.

Since it's inevitable I can only hope that Saddam reconsiders at H-hour (not bloody likely), that one of his minions takes him out shortly after H-hour (but I wonder how they'll get the message through) or that war is as short and "clean" as it can possibly be.