[CharlieDontSurf]

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" Saddam is the one who ordered gas attacks on innocent civilians. It's not our fault that Iran, Al Qaeda, and the former Sunni ruling elite are doing everything in their power to cause chaos and make America look bad. "

Well, when you prop up Sadaam and send him weapons, money and yes even biological agents, when you fund the people who turned into Al-Qaeda and when you over throw the democratically elected government in Iran, subverting the first Muslim democracy in the middle east, I would say you bear some of the responsibility.

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Even if I grant you, in arguendo, that America made mistakes in the past, that has little relevance on whether or not the current war in Iraq is just. For example, let's say that a father gives his child a gun and tells him to shoot his mother. The father then realizes that his previous action was wrong and tries to get the gun back from the child to prevent him from killing her. Is the father not justified in taking the gun away from the child?

Save the arguments about the past for the historians. If you want to talk about whether America's current actions are right or wrong, analyze America's actions based on current conditions and justifications.

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The father takes away the gun by killing the child. He then kills the mother who attacks him after becoming outraged that the father killed the child. The relatives in the kitchen attack the father for killing the mother, he then kills the relatives for attacking him unprovoked. And it goes on and on and on till one side of the family kills the other or everyone is dead.