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Originally posted by hibbidiji
For all you self righteous non Americans out there... I would ask you this...
if you are an aussie (I LOVE Australia) and the sydney opera house was destroyed with a full house (2679 plus employees/performers)
or
you're french and a loaded 747 flys down the street at the arch de triomphe
and you had several pieces of evidence that:
1. you are likely to be atacked again
2. the people that were behind it got funding or were ABOUT to get funding from iraq
3. that iraq has in INSANE amount of VX nerve gas that they cant account for (40mg kills a human guaranteed, and they have tons of the shit)
4. iraq SWORE that they had NONE all through the 90's until in 99, they said, oh ok, you got us, we'll destroy it, and suddently there it was, but not all of it. now we're supposed to believe that they are tellin the truth this time....
If you had this evidence, and you now felt scared to walk the streets, wouldnt you go after iraq? I guess if you're a fucking frog, you would just eat a croissant at them, but I always thought the aussies liked a cowboy that could kick some ass.
Drew
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We were attacked, on November 2nd 2002. A big explosion in Bali, Indonesia, killed about 190 people and hurt more than 300 people.
Most of the victims were tourists from more than 11 countries such as Australia, U.K., Singapore and Japan. Newspaper reports said that Australians amounted to about 80% of the victims.
For the most part, Australia although sending a lot of high level law enforcement, it was mostly left to the Indonesian government to take care of it (still pending).
Some terrorism comes from racial disputes but most of the recent bombings have some connection with hatred towards the U.S.A., Israel and their allies in relation to the Palestinian problem.
You're right about Iraq misleading America and the UN, but the point to all this anti-war talk is this: Why now? why not finish the job the first time? this is not very good timing... he needs to take care of local issues before taking on the world.
I mean it would have taken less than a month or two for the US to replenish it's war stock after the Gulf war. Taking action at that time, would have had not only my support, but I'm sure the support of millions of people.
This current impending war is based on a personal agenda, an agenda created by George W Bush and his family. You can't sit idle for 12 years and then one day decide it's time... just because an un-related attack on your country has given you the right tools to promote your personal agenda.
In my opinion, George W Bush is an accountable war criminal if only one American or allied soldier dies in Iraq this year.