I am not sure where to start...

So much of what Mr Byrne has said is simply... opinion stated as fact?

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The U.S.
war in Iraq is neither defensive, nor just, nor legal. 

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It is defensive in that we are not attacking the countries responsible for
trying to disrupt an already chaotic situation.

It iis just in that the tyrant in Iraq have been asking for it for a long 
time.

It is legal in that the US Congress auithorized it.

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It was launched on
a pretext established by deceit.

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You mean the deceit perpetrated by George Tenant?  Not exactly true.
 Iraq was in violation of the agreement made after the first Gulf War.

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It has all but destroyed any prospect of
Iraq actually becoming a modern state.

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You mean Saddam Hussien or maybe one of his two psycopath sons were
just about to convert the country to a Democratic Republic?

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It has cost the lives of tens of
thousands of common Iraqis who had no interest in U.S. politics and
nothing to do with the boogeyman of "international terror".  

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As opposed to the tens of thousands of Iraqi's who died under Saddam 
Hussien.  And there is a monument to that 'boogeyman' which used to be 
called the Trade Towers.

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It has done
absolutely nothing whatsoever to improve the illusion of security that
many U.S. citizens seemingly cherish to the point of killing their
neighbours to establish. 

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Exactly what 'neighbors' have been killed?  In Iraq?  'Neighbors' on the 
other side of the world?  And the 'illusion of security'?  Is this the
same kind of 'security' proposed by Neville Chamberlain?

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Mr. Lee, your incapacity to see anything other than what agrees with your
evident prejudice means that you are likely to be offended by a great many
things.  

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I have the same thing to say to you.

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The actual makeup of the armed services of the world is no mystery to
those that actually look beyond the veil of trumped up glory and puffery
that passes for military ceremonial and mystique. The militaries of the
world exist to further the policies and beliefs of the ruling classes of
their respective countries and to secure those for classes their positions
of primacy within their countries.

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This sounds like something straight out of The Daily Worker.
Dressed up to look like Lawyerspeak.

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