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Old 03-04-2006, 07:52 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Hitler only declared war on the US after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Last time I checked my history that did not happen in 1933 or 1934. By that time Operation Barbarossa was already in full swing. So where was US humanitarianism? It was nowhere to be found.

The fact that my girlfriend is South African by birth can be attributed to the unwillingness, and the "humanitarianism" of ALL countries in the Western world for accepting refugees from Germany.

The US did not join WW I in 1914 either.

In fact after the Kuwait War the US had promised the opposition some support if they rose against Saddam. They rose, but support did not come, and the rebellion that was almost country-wide was suppressed as a result; Saddam's military might had not completely collapsed. The US simply preferred Saddam over what may have arisen as a result of a succesful rebellion. The humanitarianism!

There still exists controversy: Saddam accused the Kuwaitis of stealing oil in the border region. Apparently such a thing is unlawful.
But again, proof is apparently not needed to declare war, so I can't see why Saddam should not have been allowed to occupy Kuwait in retrospect, if such reasoning is valid.

And if the Brittish intelligence service releases a decade old project of a student as the ultimate proof that Iraq has WMD, which was known worldwide within 48 hours, you don't have to be a genius to see that the Intelligence services even lacked a bit of creativity to come up with hard-to-falsify statements.

But back to the topic.

In fact, in the US minors can be given the death penalty. That happens in only 5 countries in the world, Iran and Saudi-Arabia amongst them. I can't see why the Iranians should be part of the axis of evil, if they are just as humanitarian as the US in their civil law.
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