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"Norman Gall" <gall@spookyhill.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3E6CA2BE.1040202@ns.sympatico.ca>, Carter Lee
> <crlee@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Glen Hallick wrote:
> >
> > ..a long involved and often insulting reply to my comments which, when
> > analysed, seems to boil down to a single fact.  He is against the
> > disarmament of Iraq because he believes the US is hypocritical in
> > spearheading that initiative because it has done business with Iraq in
> > the past.
>
> I have to agree with you, Carter. Glen is uninterested in the
> implications of any of the 'facts' he produces and explicitly refuses
> to see the irrelevance of hypocrisy for the argument that Iraq should
> be disarmed. Whether Iraq should be disarmed has nothing to do with who
> armed them or for what purpose they were armed.


Glad to see you acknowledge the hypocrisy of the US and other countries.

It is a damn shame that there are people willing to turn a blind eye as to
how Iraq got these WDM's. BTW, I have said nothing about being against
disarming Iraq of these weapons. I think Iraq should be and in fact for
greater peace in the Middle East there should be arms reduction in other
countries. For example, perhaps Saudi Arabia could be persuaded to give up
all or part of their inventory of Chinese made MRBM's.


>
> > Extending that fact to it's illogical conclusion leaves all the world's
> > despots with the comfort of knowing that if they do business with all
> > other countries in the world they cannot be brought to account for
> > anything else they do.
>
> Hell, according to Glen, all they need to do is buy some rifles from
> the US and they are free from moral criticism and immune to being
> brought to task for their own misdeeds.

Like Carter, you made the wrong assumption. I have never said that a despot
should be "...free from moral criticism and immune to being brought to task
for their own misdeeds."



>
> > You are truly out of touch with reality Glen.
>
> I think he simply doesn't care what the facts _actually_ mean.

Again you assume wrong professor.


Glen