No shit, George? Well, you already told the world that it’s your goal to remove the guy from power; why the fuck should he do what you want?
Actually I would love it if Iraq started cooperating fully with UN inspectors, bending over backwards to comply with the resolutions. No war. Then I could watch our Executive Branch flounder as it searched for a new excuse to attack.
Actually, a friend of mine at work, a rock-solid Republican/Libertarian, pointed out something that I, a Liberal Democrat, noticed as well. When Jr. Bush accused Saddam of attacking Iran, most of the UN delegates started laughing, or writng furiously. This is, of course, because when Iraq attacked Iran, in 1981, it did so with the bessing and support of the United States.
Did he really say that? I should have listened to the whole speach. I remember back in 1990, when the State Department was explaining to everybody that Saddam is Hitler, I wondered, “why didn’t they mention that all the years we were supporting him against Iran?”
Sometimes I just get tired of this shit. I’m a patriotic American. I would love to have a President I believe in, and to be completely behind our foreign policy. Damnit, do you know how much I fucking hate agreeing with the Iraqi ambassador?
If the most powerful country in the world announces a policy of feeling justified in preemptively attacking any country in the world it feels might be a threat, wouldn’t other countries be justified in attacking us first? I mean, what could be a clearer threat than that policy? That’s why I despise George W. Bush and fear the consequences of his tenure; he’s not just a poor excuse for a president, he’s trying to change what kind of country the US is. I think there are people in the White House dreaming of an American Empire straddling the globe.