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Originally posted by Downriggin:
Pre-emptive???

According to UNR 678, military action (or enforcement as it is worded) is lawful for non-compliance.. I feel 12 years is way too long in the first place. The main unwritten reason for UNR 1441 was to reinforce UNR 678 so we could strike. Now, the UN Heads of State have no argument... Like GW said, "Since the UN doesn't want to enforce the UNR's, we will!"

Yep.. France gets their oil from Iraq and Russia just did a multi-billion dollar deal, but did they have planes crash into their buildings? I am sure that if they did, they would want a part of the action... Besides, we don't need more 'em.
Give it time, they'll come running...

Downriggin'
Well....... Russia actually has some major problems involving Islamic fundamentalists... Chetchyna, located within Russia, borders on Georgia, is almost 100% muslum- all "russians' have been driven out. In their seeking independence, they have done things like bomb various sites in Moscow and their most notable action being when they took a packed Moscow theatre hostage in January- which resulted in the dramatic gasing of the theatre by Putin's government which killed more people than the terrorists. Still no word on what that gas actually was.

So the Russians can definitely sympathize with us. We(US) currently have troops in Chetchyna and I believe Georgia. All apart of the war on terrorism.
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