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"Norman Gall" <gall@spookyhill.net> wrote in message
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> In article <l%7ba.8274$Wy1.69672@newscontent-01.sprint.ca>, Glen
> Hallick <glenhallick@sprint.ca> wrote:
>
> > "Norman Gall" <gall@spookyhill.net> wrote in message
> > news:100320030935496475%gall@spookyhill.net...
> > > 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.
>
> Actually, I did acknowledge it many times in our last set of exchanges.


Yes, you mosr certainly did.


>
> > 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.
>
> Perhaps.

Dangle a carrot in front of Iraq. IMHO it would much easier to achieve
disarmament with Iraq and other Arab countries if Israel agreed to dispose a
portion of their WDM'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."
>
> Actually, that is what your arguments last exchange amounted to;
> whether you realise it or not.

Sorry Norm, it is something seen that wasn't really there.


Glen