<p>"This is ridiculous. First off, all of this talk about losing “international prestige” and alienating our “allies” is crap. WE DID NOT ALIENATE OUR ALLIES THEY ALIENATED US. If any of you anti-war guys have watched the news, you would have known that the Vulkner Report released showed that Saddam Hussein was giving $24billion+ in illegal oil kickbacks to the French, Germans, Russians, Chinese, etc. governments in return for a guarantee from them that they would block any American attempt at Iraqi military intervention. That is why people like Chirac, Shroeder, and Putin so “bravely” opposed the war. Not because they thought it was wrong, but BECAUSE THEY WERE PROFITING FROM SADDAM!</p>
<p>And to those who say why Iraq, not NK or Iran, this is why: Saddam violated 16 UN Resolutions. Saddam invaded another country with an attempt to control most of the worlds oil fields. Saddam HAD WMDs and used them in the past, so there is no reason to not believe that he would use them again if he attained them.</p>
<p>And BTW, the country that someone couldn’t remember is LIBYA. Because of what we did in Iraq, Libya renounced it’s WMD program and support for terrorism.</p>
<p>Out."</p>
<p>Umm. ***. </p>
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<li>the so called well known “Vulkner Report” does not exist. I googled it and no pages show up.</li>
<li>Even if it did, it is conservative bull about Chirac’s relationship with Saddam in the 1970’s. NEWS FLASH the US had diplomatic relations with Saddam back then too. HELLO? ever heard of the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? The U.S. supported Saddam then but apparently that never makes it way into the “Vulkner report”</li>
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<p>“And to those who say why Iraq, not NK or Iran, this is why: Saddam violated 16 UN Resolutions. Saddam invaded another country with an attempt to control most of the worlds oil fields. Saddam HAD WMDs and used them in the past, so there is no reason to not believe that he would use them again if he attained them.”</p>
<p>RIGHT, like NORTH KOREA NEVER VIOLATED ANY U.N. RESOLUTIONS AND NEVER EVER EVER BROKE TREATIES AND LIED TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE UN.</p>
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<p>“And BTW, the country that someone couldn’t remember is LIBYA. Because of what we did in Iraq, Libya renounced it’s WMD program and support for terrorism.”</p>
<p>umm no causal link between the war and libya. libya had entered negotiations pre-war.</p>
<p>and then EL Commando agreeing with Bull as if he was about to say the same thing speaks VOLUMES about him.</p>
<p>A. He automatically thought Bull had an ounce of truth in his post just because he cited some fictional report. Meaning he has absolutely no factual basis for any of his claims on his thread and that he believes everything conservative ON FACE. Funny how NO ONE EXCEPT for ElCommando and Bull have heard of this “Vulkner report”
B. He has no idea what he is talking about and is not worth responding to.</p>