Originally posted by Harp Heaven
Yeah, they`re fighting for freedom alright.
Crush anyone who does not comply with the rules your country breaks! Engage in war on negative evidence(if they don`t have it, that just means they hid it well), and tout your benevolency so that the international society will look the other way. Override the UN so it loses all international respect and loses it`s ability to solve conflicts. It pisses me off to no end, and I applaud France and Germany for standing up to the oppressive politics of the US.
Don`t get me wrong, I think Saddam is a brutal dictator, which in a perfect world should be deposed and fed to the wolves for his brutal killings and massacres of his own people and the kurds. That is not what I`m disagreeing with. What I react on is that the US sets a "the rules apply to you but not to us" standard that will increase the probability of other nations going to war. After all, what use is the UN when it is clearly discriminating against states who are not members of the security council? The truth remains, that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. It doesn`t matter how convinced you are that Iraq has them. Until hard evidence is found, the US has no reason to go to war, and even if it has, why isn`t it attacking North Korea, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia(most of the 9/11 terrorists came from SA, a fact the US government conveniently ignored[they are your ally after all])and other potential "security threats"?
I would not compare it to Nazi propaganda, but rather to what was spewed out during the second world war in the US itself.