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Okay. An exercise for the student...

Show which of those fine and noble reasons you have kindly listed definitely DO NOT APPLY to the US/NATO attacks on Bosnia, or Clinton's military attacks on the Sudan, Haiti, Somalia, and Iraq (which the tens of thousands of leftist peace marchers currently blocking the streets apparently slept through):

War is a course of action to be taken only as the last resort.



War is expensive.

War catalyzes the laws of unintended consequences.

War takes innocent lives.

War destroys private property.

War ravages the land and pollutes the environment.

War encourages futher weapons development.

The American people oppose war.

The administration has not made a convincing case for war.

War results in loss of civil liberties.

War encourages fascism.

War creates future enemies.

War encourages terrorism.

War is the ultimate terror.

War is evil.

The president is trying to gain too much power.

Rather than leading the world to war, the United States of America should be promoting the cause of peace.

Congress has not declared war on (fill in the blank)

It is wrong to start wars.

It is not in the best interests of the United States to wage war on (fill in the blank)

The (fill in the blank) people have already suffered enough.

As aggressors, we surrender the moral high ground

"Thou shalt not kill."

The United States is being manipulated by Israel

The sabre rattling is being used to distract attention from domestic problems.

The war is really a move to gain strategic advantage on the geopolitical chessboard of the "Great Game"

The war is being used to promote the cause of the NWO.

We might lose.

Actually, to make it easy on you, there are only three items on your list, highly specific to our current situation, which could possibly be used as a plausible reason for marching now when nobody marched back then:

There are too many unanswered questions about 911.

No case has been made for Iraqi involvement in Black Tuesday. How did we get from the WTC to Iraq?

War would encourage Saddam Hussein to use his WMD.

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