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Well, then 'the blantant violation of the sovereignity of another country' can be acceptable, if this country is Iraq, right?

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Blatant violation of the sovereignty of another country is not acceptable behavior for any country, regardless of the individual involved. 

Does that mean you also oppose the US invasion in Irak?

There is no comparison between the situation in Iraq and pursuing an INDIVIDUAL terrorist!

Not only did Iraq invade its neighbor Kuwait, and murder its own citizens with chemical weapons, it also ignored 17 UN resolutions.

I really don't think we need to revisit everything that led up to the war in Iraq.

Trying to link gettign a single terrorist with what happened in Iraq is simply absurd.

Not wishing to delve deep into these political discussions, but just a couple of points:

1) I suppose FUBAR was referring to the current invasion of Iraq, which eventually started as a result of the attack on WTC - not the first war due to the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq

2) That short quote doesn't specify any action to catch any individual terrorist, but "terrorist targets" which of course is very different matter altogether

3) If Obama decided to take action against terrorist targets in Pakistan, as in that quote, I don't think it would be much different from the times when U.S troops hunted down the taliban fighters on the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. I don't think I am much wrong here, if I say that the Afghanistan/Pakistan-border operations were very much motivated by finding a certain individual, not to mention the hunt for Saddam during the same conflict.

I admit that I haven't been following everything the presidential candidates have been saying during the campaign, but based on solely that quote by Barack Obama, I wouldn't worry too much about his war mongerism.

Click the second link in my earlier post. It isn't as simple as the quote you site, would imply.

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It is just slightly hypocritical, IMHO.

There's nothing slight about it, Hal.

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Well, then 'the blantant violation of the sovereignity of another country' can be acceptable, if this country is Iraq, right?

Apparently you are incapable of comprehension and I will not waste my time explaining something to someone who does not have the capacity to comprehend.

Translation: I do not have an answer to this so I try to discredit my opponent

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I don't think if you say it may be necessary to take appropriate action against terrorist groups who fled to and/or are hiding in Pakistan will increase their strength or cause a world war. There's a difference in telling everyone what you might do and what you really will do if you're able to.

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Well, Joe there does seem to be particular behavior that goes with left-leaning people and i don't know why. It is possible that left and right cannot meet in the middle, that certainly seems to be the political atmosphere here the last 20 years or so, the democrats and the Republicans seem absolutely incapable of working together as they once did.<shrugs>

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would you categorise any typical behaviour of right wing people in the same way as you categorise left leaning people?

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Who said anything about invading Iraq?  But yes, we were authorized, if only because they had violated the UN mandates that they agree to after the first Gulf War.

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He didn't say the UN authorized us.  Tell me you're not one of those that believes we should not take any military action that is not authorized by the U.N.!

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In spite of the revisionist versions that have been put forth in this thread, anybody who really wants to understand why we invaded Iraq simply needs to spend a very minimal amount of time doing some research....and not on left-wing blogs!

It's amazing how short memories actually are and how quickly facts can get morphed into pure fantasy, like th proposition earlier in this thread that we invaded Iraq because of 9/11.  That is sheer delusion!