>>A superb speech...http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,908218,00.html
Brice writes:
>...it is a prime example of communist propaganda.
What struck me, rather, was its humanism. We see what we wish to see, I guess.
>Pre-emptive strikes are nothing new.
It's not that pre-emptive strikes per se are new, it is the doctrine of pre-emptive strikes as a declared (illegal) tool of one nation against another that may pose a threat at some undetermined future date. A concept so flimsy that if all nations employed it we'd descend into anarchy.
>As far as new diseases are concerned, the biggest threat comes from Iraq.
Could you clarify that comment?
Here's a couple of wars we ought to get involved in.
AIDS: http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm
Malaria -: http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/1InformationSheet03.pdf
>There is more stuff there which would be laughable...
Fair enough. I still consider it superb. Though the spirit of the words may not be applied in their fullest by the speaker does not diminish the message or sentiment, in my view.
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>What WMD's did we sell to either side in the Iran/Iraq war?
US and Iraq: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-528574,00.html
UK and chemical weapons plant: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,908212,00.html
I'd say Guy makes an interesting point. The Iraq-Kuwait issue was of greater seriousness than the West surmised, as Saddam saw it as reclaiming land that was originally part of Iraq.
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