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9/14 Bush to U.N.: 'Go Bear!'
\_ More like "back up your own resolutions or become completely
meaningless and irrelevent". Laws without enforcement are worse
than no laws. Laws must be consistently backed by force and
punishment. Doing otherwise only encourages law breaking. Without
a UN to worry about Hussein would have been assassinated or blown
up years ago.
\_ I am *not* a Bush supporter, and generally disagree with just
about everything he has ever said. In spite of that, I think
he made a very good case to the UN. one wonders why he didn't
start out by making this case to the UN instead of prefacing
it by months of counter-productive saber-rattling.
\_ Because if he just walked in and begged them to do something
up front he would've been laughed at. By saber rattling along
the way he made it clear he was dead serious and they better
*do* something or we'd do it for them *and* ignore them in the
future given their previous do-nothing record. Also, there's
this funny idea about how the US is not subject to the 3rd
world pit that is the UN. He made a good case but didn't tell
them we'd abide by their decision if it their plan was to
ignore it and hope it'd go away while they munched sand and
dug their sandy pits a little deeper. |
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