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The US will attack. With or without a UN resolution. With or without the help of others. But the rest will fall in line
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*Originally posted by CM: *
But the rest will fall in line
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CM, did you mean Arab states who are against war, will support United States?
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*Originally posted by Pakistani Tiger: *
CM, did you mean Arab states who are against war, will support United States?
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I guess we should talk about Arab state not Arab states. Who cares about them, the rest. I don't, we don't, THEY don't
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*Originally posted by Ali_R: *
I guess we should talk about Arab state not Arab states. Who cares about them, the rest. I don't, we don't, THEY don't
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Ali_R, what I actually meant and what I figured out from CM's comments that today most of the Arab countries don't support United States waging war against Iraq.
So, the question is: Would they accept United States move as the war begins? US troops are already in Qatar[the only Arab country allowing to use its base]. Qatar is not too far away from Iraq.
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*Originally posted by Pakistani Tiger: *
Ali_R, what I actually meant and what I figured out from CM's comments that today most of the Arab countries don't support United States waging war against Iraq.
So, the question is: Would they accept United States move as the war begins? US troops are already in Qatar[the only Arab country allowing to use its base]. Qatar is not too far away from Iraq.
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"Either you are ONE of US or you are ONE of these, the terrorists".
Well let's call them Anti Americans. How about that?
And now let me ask you this:
You have a hard decision to make??! Haven't you?
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*Originally posted by Ali_R: *
"Either you are ONE of US or you are ONE of these, the terrorists".
Well let's call them Anti Americans. How about that?
And now let me ask you this:
You have a hard decision to make??! Haven't you?
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Dear, would the same quote apply on Americans as well, who are against US waging war on Iraq? ;)
They will all fall in line. EU, Arab states, Russia etc. They have no choice. You can not go against the strongest economic and military power today and expect to remain unscathed.
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Dear, would the same quote apply on Americans as well, who are against US waging war on Iraq? ;)
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Then better watch your back when next time your door bell rings, who knows when the men in blacks gonna get ya.
Besides this, is there a way you can feel being free but still living under pressure? Just coz you oppose your own government. How ironic?
May I count you in? The Anti American by name, that is?
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*Originally posted by CM: *
They will all fall in line. EU, Arab states, Russia etc. They have no choice. You can not go against the strongest economic and military power today and expect to remain unscathed.
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So, the World's policies spins around the White House.
Agree/disagree?
Sadly yes. Its a shame that we are stuck with a dunce in power who treats international laws as a waste of paper.
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*Originally posted by Ali_R: *
Then better watch your back when next time your door bell rings, who knows when the men in blacks gonna get ya.
Besides this, is there a way you can feel being free but still living under pressure? Just coz you oppose your own government. How ironic?
May I count you in? The Anti American by name, that is?
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What comes around, goes around!
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CM hit the nail on the head. Those who provide a more gung-ho/Yankee mentality today for a war against Iraq will — in a post-war and post-Saddam era — have their Iraq oil contracts honoured. On the contrary, in the upcoming post-Saddam and pro-US new Iraq government, those like Germany who have been shuffling their feet towards a war against Iraq, will have their 1991 war reparations due from Iraq and any future oil/infrastructural contracts in rebuilding Iraqi society, greatly suffer. Perhaps even terminated.
Scramble to carve up Iraqi oil reserves lies behind US diplomacy
Ed Vulliamy, Paul Webster, and Nick Paton Walsh, The Observer, 6 October 2002
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*Originally posted by Pakistani Tiger: *
Dear, would the same quote apply on Americans as well, who are against US waging war on Iraq? ;)
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PT, tell me honestly, do you think anyone stops you if you rally against the american government in the US? No.... But if you do that in other countries, you get busted... Hell, they even had a humour show in which they dissed Bush!! Can they have a 'Thats our idiotic Blair' show in England? No... Thats the difference...
btw, PT are you in UCLA? If so, excellent, maybe I will go there for some research stuff and get to meet ya...
*What if this happens before the attack? Would they still carry out an all out attack or not?
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Saddam will be ousted by members inner circle: Washington Post report
(Updated at 2200 PST)
WASHINGTON: US intelligence experts believe that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be ousted by members of his inner circle before US forces launch a major ground attack, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
Faced with a US military assault and the choice of either being Saddam’s successors or being imprisoned or killed in the fighting, top-ranking military officers or senior Iraqi officials likely will try to eliminate the Iraqi leader, several current and former US officials and intelligence experts told the daily.
“Someone will take action and cause it to happen,” said one former high-ranking CIA officer.
Senior US officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have recently spoken publicly about Iraqis eliminating Hussein themselves, either through assassination or by sending him into exile.
Late last week, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer made similar comments.
“The cost of a one-way ticket is substantially less than (the cost of war),” Fleischer said.
“The cost of one bullet, if the Iraqi people take it on themselves, is substantially less than that,” he said at a press briefing late last week.
Earlier this year, US President George W. Bush directed the CIA to undertake a comprehensive covert program to topple the Iraqi leader, including authority to use lethal force.
The intelligence agency was instructed to increase support for and contacts with opposition groups inside and outside Iraq, and to expand efforts to collect intelligence about pockets of anti-Saddam sentiment within the Iraqi government, military and intelligence services, the Post wrote.
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What comes around, goes around!
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In US's case it's not.
War With Iraq May Be Unavoidable: Bush
MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct 5: US President George W. Bush said on Saturday that war with Iraq may be unavoidable and that delay was not an option to keep a defiant Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from deploying weapons that could cause “massive and sudden horror” for America.
“There’s no negotiations. There’s nothing to talk about. We don’t want you to have weapons of mass destruction. … Now you’ve got to show the world you don’t have them,” Bush said of Saddam at a ceremony in Manchester, New Hampshire, honouring law enforcement officers and members of the National Guard.
“We must not ignore reality. We must do everything we can to disarm this man before he hurts one single American,” Bush told hundreds of flag-waving supporters in a preview of a prime-time television speech next week in which he will explain to the American people and the US Congress why he thinks the United States should be prepared to take military action.
ARMS INSPECTORS: The first group of UN weapons inspectors is due to leave for Iraq on Oct 19, Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, told the Ria-Novosti news agency on Saturday.
**“It is important that this departure goes ahead on the scheduled date,” **he added.
While the five veto-wielding permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are unable to reach agreement over how to deal with Iraq, the UN chief arms inspector Hans Blix has been forced to delay the return of his disarmament inspectors.
Having said they would be sent back in mid-October, Blix refused to give a firm date after his meeting with the Security Council on Thursday, saying only that he hoped it “would not be a long delay. We are ready to go at the earliest practical opportunity.”
Washington and London want to send Blix to Iraq with a tough new mandate, backed by the threat of immediate military action if Iraq refuses to cooperate with his inspection teams.
Ivanov reiterated that Russia believed it was **“extremely important that the inspectors return as soon as possible”. **
He said Thursday’s UN Security Council meeting and the comments made by arms inspectors and officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency showed there were “no obstacles preventing their prompt return.”-Reuters/AFP
People its so obvious the Americans are nothing but colonial war mongerers this is about oil and nothing else they are dying for an excuse to get the oil and they will do anything to get there Hamid Karzai clone i.e US puppet into power in iraq!
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*Originally posted by Saif1924: *
People its so obvious the Americans are nothing but colonial war mongerers this is about oil and nothing else they are dying for an excuse to get the oil and they will do anything to get there Hamid Karzai clone i.e US puppet into power in iraq!
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Don't be too hard on US. Muslim countries Jordan, Eqypt, Qatar are backing US. What do you say about that?
Flip the coin dear!
The rulers of Egypt, Jordon, Qatar etc.. will aid/support America but the people will be absolutely opposed, remember the demonstrations throughout countries as America embarked on Afghanistan. The governments dealt with protests with iron fist. How many students were shot dead in Egypt???