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"Starting an immoral war?"

A war to stop Saddam's campaign of oppression, torture and murder, including ethnic cleansing, against his own population, as well as financing terrorism e.g. payoffs to the families of Palestinian Arab homicide bombers? Stopping this is "immoral"? WTF?!

Tell us how leaving Saddam Hussein in power for another 12 years of inspections and sanctions promotes peace and justice for the Iraqi people. Please. Or is there some magical third option between backing the UN's own resolutions with force or continuing the UN inspection shell game?

And notice again, the anti-Bush rhetoric:

"I would love to see George W. Bush fall flat on his face for starting an immoral war, for lying to Americans and to the world and because he tried to impose his views on the world with gangster-style bribery and blackmail."

Yes, again it's more about opposing George W. Bush than determining if a military campaign, that without a doubt will save thousands of Iraqis from Saddam's torture chambers and firing squads, is indeed moral or immoral.

And as for "gangster-style bribery and blackmail", I recall numerous articles about the mainly French bullying of smaller, weaker East European countries, threatening exclusion from the European Union if they didn't just sit down and shut up.

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