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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks It makes no sense to say we shouldn't condemn child exploitation just because we had it at some point in our own history. We also didn't go to war over a "difference of opinion." We went to war as a last resort, after 11 years of UN failures, to remove a brutal dictator who murdered his own people and invaded his neighbors. What a ridiculous rant.

I'm not saying let's not condemn it.

All I am wanting to do is call attention to the practice of manipulating public sentiment on the grounds of "human rights violations", when the argument to go to war is morally insufficient, unsubstantiated by any facts and illegal. I had no specific example in mind from history when I wrote this, but it should not be hard for anyone to find many occasions of human rights violations appeals coinciding with the pursuit of a war mandate. I'll remind everyone that I am not among the conspiracy theorists on this board. I am however pretty damned perceptive when it comes to the media.