Posted by zeugma on March 28, 2006, at 17:21:56
In reply to Re: Goodbye from me.........., posted by Dinah on March 28, 2006, at 16:47:13
I guess I'll just never understand why it's not perfectly feasible to conduct a civil and friendly political discussion under the same circumstances.>>
because I strongly believe, and have much evidence to back up, the conviction that the politicians we have been discussing here have been lying and flouting the laws of this nation.
And I wake up every morning to news of chaos in Iraq. The U.N. will not clean up our mess, because the Bush Administration disregarded the agreements that they themselves adopted (ironic that they wound up defying the U.N. more, in this instance, than Saddam himself). And there is a civil war, and U.S. troops are in the middle of it, regardless of Mr. Rumsfeld's latest stroke of semantic twisting.
Policy. Essentially, we washed our hands of the U.N. when we went in ourselves (according to the memo recently leaked by a Blair gov't official and described as accurate by unnamed, but we are assured high-ranking officials, Mr. Bush merely wanted to use the U.N. as a convenient cover for his own intentions).
O.K., bring the U.N, to clean up our mess. I would think that the U.N., after having been treated with such contempt a few years ago, is hardly willing to wade into a thankless conflict for such an feckless set of occupiers. But you know, it is a good thing to abide by international law when it is convenient. The better to undermine it later.
-z
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