>And of course you'd be bombing yourselves too. Today's events force the question: why did we impose 12 years of starvation, misery and neglect on the Iraqi people unless we believed that SH would do as we say while we did nothing about it.
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>And that's the fact. We, did, nothing. All the justifications for war and the rest of it boil down to the fact that we were too busy looking after our first-world selves to remember that an entire nation was embargoed on our orders until such time as our demands were met, a timing which you now say was never going to happen by itself. So why did we do this to the Iraqi people. Why didn't we act on the cancer while it was still small. Why are we surprised that the cancer takes little notice if all we do is scold and wait till it is a huge mess and heroic action is required.
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>We all have a lot of "looking in the mirror" ahead of us.

You just prove a point I made recently to you... the U.S. is damned if we do and damned if we don't.