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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Kozyra; The Hebrews were one of the orginal Canaanite tribes through Abraham. The "Arabs" ancestory is from Hagar's son. Hagar was the Egyptian slave girl who was sent to Abraham by his wife Sarah, who didn't think she could concieve. However, she did concieve and her decendants are the Hebrews, who are the rightful owners of that land. Land given to them by Jehova. According to relgious texts anyway. Course everyone over there follows those...right?
Suki; Much of your logic is why the US invaded Iraq. Everyone was pissed off at Bush even though Obama is doing the same thing, some of his words are even identical to Bush's.
They should just stop pussyfooting around, delcare the US the United American Empire and take the oil from them. Most of the world thinks we are the big bad guys anyhow, might as well show them what that would really mean. It's ironic that Bin ladin started this mess cause he wanted the US out of Muslim countries...we are in more of them now than ever. At this rate 3 or 4 presidents from now we probably will end up occupying the entire middle east.
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Perhaps when we discuss Iraq, we can remember a decade's worth of UN resolutions which were never enforced by the UN. We should remember the UN's "Oil For Food Program" which was supposed to allow Saddam Hussein to sell oil to feed his people, but which instead was used to enrich UN officials while allowing Saddam to go on and build palaces and oppress as usual. Had the UN acted on the first of it's resolutions, rather than not acting on the dozen or so that it issued over the years, there probably would never have been a second gulf war. We should remember Bill Clinton's December 1999 speech where he said that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs must be dealt with. We should remember the countless times that UN weapons inspectors were detained, prevented to look in certain areas, or simply ejected from the country, even in the weeks before the war started. Bush was no genius, but he was not the only one to blame for the war.
And Obama has continued the war, even though he said that "combat operations have ceased". A play on words which means that attacks are simply called "security actions", but are no different from the "combat operations" of before. It's hilarious, but exactly what someone would expect from a president who was a law professor.
Obama and the UN would be better off letting Libya settle this themselves. If Qadafi wins, so what? His successor probably would be no different than he was.