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Will of the UN

Rick Mercier: "We'd have leveled a number of countries--including Israel--a long time ago if we were really interested in enforcing the will of the U.N. Heck, for that matter, we'd be contemplating a pre-emptive strike against most American conservatives, too."

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"But here's a news flash for you luminaries: We don't go to war with a tyrant simply because he brutalizes his own people. When Hussein gassed the Kurds, not only did the Reagan-Bush administration not go to war against him, it retained him as a valuable ally."

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"The weak arguments in favor of invading Iraq have obscured an embarrassing truth that the attack-Iraq crowd doesn't want to confront--namely, that if we were serious about targeting the countries that support the terrorists who really threaten us, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan would be at the top of our list. But they're not. Instead, they're both key allies in the 'war on terror.'"