Russia bothers me. Rosie O'Donnell terrifies me.
And so does the illustrious couple, Reid and Pelosi.
Russia bothers me. Rosie O'Donnell terrifies me.
As if our presence has been requested in every intervention.
ohh no im not saying that, just as a principle
I would just like to point out, again, that independent of the WMD claim, Iraq had violated the terms of surrender. If compelling the losing nation to comply with the terms of surrender is not a justifiable use of force, what is? Keeping in mind how the world actually operates on the international geopolitical stage and all that. It's the world's version of threatening a time out to the misbehaving child and never giving it. The dear thing learns your threats are meaningless and runs off to do as he pleases. At which point you have the choice to use even more force to bring him back to submission or let him continue in his behavior unabated.I understand what you're trying to say, and IMO, the invasion of Iraq was wrong. However, the US made the case prior to invasion. We were spoonfed a bunch of BS information: the possession if WNDs (which meant nuclear weapons, in violation of treaty), the supposed connection between Saddam and 9/11, and a number of other reasons. Hell, the UN passed a resolution ordering Iraq to disarm or face consequences. Obviously, they couldn't disarm, because they had nothing, but nevertheless they were considered in violation, and the US responded with invasion. In other words, the US acted due to the universal belief (at that time) that Iraq was ignoring international law, re-arming, and possessed WMDs. Given, after Gulf War 1, Iraq had made assurances concerning their behavior, and had actually ignored a number of them, if one was to believe the other allegations, then it's incredibly difficult to say invasion was completely wrong.
There no similarity to the Russian-Ukraine dynamic. The two have not had open hostilities in the near past, there are no sanctions for them to ignore, the treatment of the "ethnic" Russian population isn't even remotely close that of the Kurds in Iraq. Russia hasn't even attempted to give an explaination, concerning their invasion, that doesn't make people roll their eyes, or chuckle in disbelief. They would do well, in the future, by making something plausible up, than invading first, and then scrambling to find reasons to world would accept.
In America, when we want to invade, we make stuff up, have the world believe it, and after the invasion we say "oops." In Russia, they simply invade, and say "so?"
Hey. No need to insult women by putting us on his level.I'd love to agree with you but, regrettably, we are living in the past tense of American greatness. We even have a Commangina-in-Chief who has been apologetic of our (former) greatness and the things we represented during our period of greatness. That was the same period of greatness when we did indeed lead the free world and were a respected and feared superpower. It's great to have national pride but in the eyes of much of the world, including our allies, the wussification of The United States of America is almost complete.
Don't worry, there will be peace for our time.Since it seems likely that Obama is going to give Crimea to Putin in an attempt to appease him, I can't help but wonder if history will regard this as another Sudetenland.
Putin is really going for broke. I wish we had a guy in the WH that would call his bluff.
I think right now they are in a high level cabinet meeting trying to figure out how they can blame this on Bush.
In a standard notification procedure under the START treaty, Russia told the United States about the plans before the Ukraine crisis, the officials said.
President is pissing himself in fear and incompetence. Even his media is pointing out how weak he's been.
This is dangerous incompetence. This is not the person I want in charge of my safety right now.
Was it this thread where the treaty with Ukraine was mentioned?What is he supposed to do? Go to war with Russia over a divided Ukraine? Or just play a game of chicken with them? Why are we obligated to defend pro-European elements of Ukraine?
At least one of the presenters at Russia Today decided not to toe the party line. Not sure how long Putin will let her keep her job.
Russia Today Anchor Speaks Out Against Invasion Of Ukraine: 'What Russia Did Is Wrong'