re: Plans and wishes are nothing

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Raoul — 7/18/2004 8:48:29 AM (archived)

A large number of people on earth could have plans and wishes to commit a crime.

It's very different from having the weapons to commit it, without even doing it.

And having the plan to attack a country and the weapons for that, is very different from actually invading the country.

Invading a country means all kinds of troops movements, radio-wave activity, and several days of preparations (if not weeks) all observable from a distance.

Wat mattered to the UN and the world, was that Saddam would not and could not invade other countries (Kuwait? After the lesson he got in 1991?) and he did not but the US invaded Iraq anyway.

Here, it's the US that had the wish, the plans, the weapons and actually attacked another country that was no threat to it if only because it's halfway around the world.

Raoul

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Steyn on Wilson - Tom Brosz - 7/17/2004 7:12:35 PM
- re: Trying means he did not succeed - Raoul - 7/17/2004 9:35:21 PM
  - re: Trying means he did not succeed - gbaikie - 7/18/2004 4:22:57 AM
  - If someone tries to buy a gun.... - FrankC - 7/18/2004 1:12:26 AM
    - Our prisons are full of folks for trying but failing to buy a gun? Try again. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/19/2004 6:04:41 PM
      - If you want to tighten that analogy up a bit... - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2004 6:49:40 PM
        
        Any way you like: parolees are prohibited from possessing firearms, not shopping. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/19/2004 11:02:41 PM
        
        Wrong. - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2004 2:43:33 AM
        
        It should be pretty obvious that he did not have the ability to do anything controversial with yellow cake. - alcaray - 7/20/2004 4:57:56 PM
        
        Then why the hell was he shopping for it? - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2004 5:49:28 PM
        
        Going in circles - alcaray - 7/20/2004 6:07:30 PM
        
        Sometimes, I just have to sit here with my mouth hanging open... - Tom Brosz - 7/20/2004 6:19:07 PM
    - re: Announcing in advance - Raoul - 7/18/2004 8:30:55 AM
      - Yeah, but we know Saddam sinned in his heart........... - Publius - 7/18/2004 11:09:38 PM
        
        Are you channeling Bowser now? - Tom Brosz - 7/19/2004 1:27:02 AM
        
        Are you channeling Bowser now?----How sad, didn't know he died?............ (n/t) - Publius - 7/19/2004 10:33:06 PM
        
        Yep, sometime in the seventies but he refuses to lie down - FrankC - 7/19/2004 11:56:06 PM
        
        Actually there was no violation of Property Rights....... - Publius - 7/19/2004 10:27:37 PM
        
        "And if "sovereignity" somehow confers legitimacy, particularly in tyrannies, why was the Left so cranked about South Africa a few years back?" - Mary Anne - 7/19/2004 1:12:10 PM
        
        re: Are you channeling Bowser now? - REB - 7/19/2004 12:12:21 PM
  - re: Trying means he did not succeed--that time. - Tom Brosz - 7/18/2004 12:57:01 AM
    - re: Plans and wishes are nothing - Raoul - 7/18/2004 8:48:29 AM
      - re: Complicity - Raoul - 7/18/2004 10:10:42 AM

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