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The fact that we would be subjecting ourselves to a court run by the UN, is nearly the exact same thing as saying the UN has the right to pass judgment and enforce their will on the US.
Not at all. They can tell us we're comitting a human rights violation and ask for our opinion if action X is a human rights violation. THat's in now way enforcing their will on us, especially since the United States would agree that crimes against humanity are wrong. If it's our will before they try to force it on us, they can never impose it on us.

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And with the other points, it was blatantly obvious to everyone in the world that Saddam had committed crimes against humanity. But you are telling me, that simply because the US was using a different reason than that to go against him, that they would turn a blind eye to it? What sort of court designed to protect human rights would do that? Where was the UN doing anything meaningful about those crimes before the US got pissed at him? How could anyone respect an organization like that?
Because stopping crimes against humanity involves toppling a regime without any set building plans, right? The Iraqi people would've greeted us as true liberators had we taken out some bastard tyrant who was oppressing them. We did so much damage - including the destruction of propery and acting as the catalyst for religious insurgence - that counteracts whatever good we did in ending human rights violations. You can't say: "Well golly gee, you've destroyed the barrier preventing relgious warfare in Iraq, gotten on the bad side of multiple countries, killed 100,000 innocent Iraqis, mismanaged the job, and ultimately drove Iraq into a worse state of affairs, but because you've stopped human rights violations it's allllllright.".
Neon,June 8 2005
07:34 PM
@Reaver: Me grammer is better than ur post count newbie.

HJ, December 30 2008
06:20 PM
You gave Inui his first (and last?) sexual experience, didn't you? That's historic.

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