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Old 05-05-2003, 06:23 PM
Cyrus Cyrus is offline
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Default Zeno somethin\'?

Zeno is correct. And I made exactly the same point :

"No one group or association of peoples, however organized, has any "high moral ground" to stand on."

Notice that your argument was something about democracies treating non-democracies better. Never happen. I thought the old adage about art and culture making people more civilised stopped holding water ever since Auschwitz and its opera-refined officers.

So, to recapitulate : The war was conducted in order, ostensibly, to disarm Iraq from its WMDs. Since no WMDs are found ("yet"), the spin shifts to the collateral bebefit of turning a dictatoship into a democracy. Because, the spin goes, democracies treat other people better than dictatorships. Which, however, is false.

"Gotta be precise" indeed.

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