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While helping Alex with a speech on the draft I found this interesting quote:
"We were told to support this preemptive war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (and to confront Al Qaeda). It wass said that the national security depended on it. But all of these dangers were not found to exist in Iraq. It was implied that lack of support for Iraqi invasion was un-American and unpatriotic.
Since the original war never existed, it is now claimed that we're there to make Iraq a western-style democracy and to spread western values. And besides, it's argued, it's nice that Suddam Hussein has been removed from power. But does the mere existence of evil somewhere in the world justify preemptive war at the expense of the American people? Utopian dreams, fulfilled by autocratic means, hardly qualify as being morally justifiable."
- Ron Paul before the US House of Representatives.
"We were told to support this preemptive war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (and to confront Al Qaeda). It wass said that the national security depended on it. But all of these dangers were not found to exist in Iraq. It was implied that lack of support for Iraqi invasion was un-American and unpatriotic.
Since the original war never existed, it is now claimed that we're there to make Iraq a western-style democracy and to spread western values. And besides, it's argued, it's nice that Suddam Hussein has been removed from power. But does the mere existence of evil somewhere in the world justify preemptive war at the expense of the American people? Utopian dreams, fulfilled by autocratic means, hardly qualify as being morally justifiable."
- Ron Paul before the US House of Representatives.