[extropy-chat] Re: Iraq and legality again

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

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> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 26, 2005, at 12:20 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:
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>>>       That is exactly what we are trying to do there
>>> now is give those people self determination.
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>> No, we aren't.  You can give self-determination while occupying the
>> country.  Bringing democracy and the rest is another ad hoc excuse
>> for our actions.
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> If the US wants Iraqi oil so badly, why did they allow a French  
> company
> to get the vast majority of the oil supply? The oil shibboleth is one
> more lie of the radical left.

Which of the several "reasons" trotted out over time do you believe?   
When I see such a pattern of rationalization I tend to think that the  
real "reason" is other than the claimed one.   Do you honestly think  
I am part of the "radical left"?  Do you even think that such  
category claims and venom toward certain claimed categories aids this  
conversation?


I am going to bow out of this.  I don't have the time or interest to  
continue it.  It is non-productive.

-s