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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
That's right... some assume it was illegal
If Saddam trading in Euro had of strengthened OPEC to do the same, like Iran was promising not that long ago by and subsequently declining opening her own bourse (there's a hint there of what is going on there with the sabre rattling and sanctions), the USD would almost certainly have crashed overnight.
Illegal? no... immoral,? possibly... to defend, even pre-emptively against an economic warfare?
Iraq is the perfect setting to convince OPEC not to go that route.. especially with the US pulling her base out of Saudi.
Crashing a country's economy, could quite easily and without hestitation be called an act of terrorism
Keep in mind though, that Iraq round one, ended in a conditional ceasefire. Open inspections were part of that condition.
@bugmenot... you can bet your bottom doller though, that if the (US) Democrats thought there was even the slightest chance to nail The Republicans over it, they would have.  |
you call it pre-emptive war, some call it
speculation. It's very dangerous to assume we (as in "the Western world") are always right.
For once I agree with Raaaid when he says: "the truth is we live in an anarchy in which the strongest imposes the rules, lets not deceive ourselves".