No, if you have the capability of helping someone and you have the responsibility to help, you must help. With authority and power comes responsibility.
Did they?
No doubt. How much of that list is immediately relevant to the topic of the thread?
So votes are earned by people who are not naive, presumably by your standards of naivete? An interesting form of government. Can you give an example of a country which has such a form of government?
I think one is better advised to simply discuss the topic of the thread point by point, giving support for each point instead of making sweeping, unsupported statements on the entire history of the world.
While it may seem that way to you, I think a more accurate portrayal is that quotations from any source are legitimately made according to their relevance to various points contributing to a general thesis.
Sounds interesting. I’ll give you a wooden penny apiece for them.
Unwarranted criticism?
Are you mentioning Haliburton?
Oh I do believe (ref the Credos). I simply do not share your taste for rhetorical questions and meandering prose. Suggesting that I remove the word Catholic (capital ‘C’) from my resume when I have given you no grounds to suspect my orthodoxy is inflammatory.
It is inflamatory, and your condescending attitude that you are to remind us of God’s promise is downright offensive. But the last sentence is even more offensive.
Was it inflammatory and offensive to remind people of Gods promise? I thought that was done every Sunday at Mass with the reading of the Gospel.
Perhaps you did not notice the legal grounds for war outlined by the attorney general includes humanitarian intervention during a crisis? The words were “b) exceptionally, to avert overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe”.
If that was the cause of invasion why not invade in 2002, 2001, 2000 etc. What changed in the Iraqi Human Rights situation in 2003 that made an invasion necessary that year?
Answer my question straight please.
Saddam would still be in power, torture or no torture, if the main export of Iraq was carrots. The second biggest recipient of US foreign aid, Egypt has an appalling record of torture. You don’t have to invade to stop the torture. Just stop the aid. Why does the US not do that? Because Human Rights are less important to national governements than geo-political strategic interests.
But nothing at all changed between 2000 and 2003. If President Bush was so keen to invade Iraq he should have made it part of his policy proposals while running for President in 2000.
“and your standard for humanitarian catastrophe is?”
Please stop putting inaccuracies in my mouth. An apology for calling me a liar yesterday wouldn’t go amiss either.
How can you prove I’m putting inaccuracies in your mouth. what’s in your mouth? Show it to us.
If I’m not a liar? Do you think that passes for an apology?
Mainly because I said nothing of the sort. Re-read what I wrote rather than assuming I think what you’d like me to think.