popeye1250
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u No,Bull I'm fine with you referring to me by the name my mother gave me....lol. However I do object to the characterization of my(I don't mean personally...more in the sense of,how did you refer to it earlier...a"childish liberal" pov )position being hypocritical. I dispute that waging an invasion of Iraq,in a futile search for WMD,has any equivalency with responding to an earnest request for humanitarian aid by prosecuting a NFZ in Libya.Understanding that these situations are in fact different...goes a long way to understanding how someone of honest and honorable beliefs can have different views concerning the two separate events. Actually I recall the humanitarian issue being a big deal on the Iraq table as well. I wish I had more time, I'm off to a wedding so I'll have to deffer for now. But I don't believe this is just about the humanitarian efforts anymore than Iraq was just about WMD... If we all put down our political game faces for a while we'll see what's really going on...... I think. Bull, that's the problem. If anyone can start a war by using the term "Human Rights" then we're going to be in corporate/oil wars ad infinitum. Since when did *any* country become responsable for the "human rights" of people in any other country? I'm sitting here in Myrtle Beach, SC, am I responsable for the "human rights" of people in say, ...Malaysia? And don't the American People get any "human rights? Which foreign countrie(s) are responsable for *our* "human rights?" Russia maybe? It's just a matter of time before criminals start using that defense. "I robbed that bank for "human rights", I gave a bunch of money to charities and the homeless!" And he'd be right to say that wouldn't he? What if al qeada said they were going to overthrow Obama for the "human rights" of the American People? You can't allow *any* govt. to use the excuse of "human rights" as a blank check to do whatever they want! That's like the Nazis saying. "I was only following orders." This isn't a "slippery slope" it's a punji pit to fall into! Endless wars because of ....."human rights."
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