Gmat
On your first point about Blair, we clearly have very differant veiws on what makes a good leader. What you seem to admire is someone who leads according to the latest opinion poll. That isn't enough. The leader who bucks the polls does so at his peril in the next election, as Blair well knows. That is why I like the man, he still does what he feels is best for his country and countrymen, even when it makes him unpopuler. Dictators as you'd like to paint him don't stand for election(s). Often times they come to power by coup, and once in power they don't hold elections.
2) Polls can and do give the answers those posing the questions want to hear. As most of the media in this country have been repeatedly proven to have a liberal bias the poll results you quote are both correct, and misleading. Most polls taken in this country are biased, and have been for a long time. If it makes you feel good to think the US people are agisnst going to war, fine. But while you tell yourself that the people of the US are aginst Bush, remember, it's a lie. Not the first one by a long shot put forward by our media to try to influance the direction public opinion will take. And I don't for a moment think it will be the last. I wish the majority of news org. in this country were honest, but that isn't the truth either.
3) You need to do some checking into just who has paid by far more than any other nation. The US. Not as much as the UN would like? Tough. Let each pay a equal amount of the cost, as they have a equal voice. And as to the idea of the richest pay most, that is a good socialist point of view, does not equate to fair.
I'll stick with my last post on the UN, including the part about both amount to be paid into it, and the use of the veto.
And you are dead wrong on the veto issure, just look at how the French are using theirs right now. If you read up on that you'll find a number of other countrys also have that power.
I'm just saying we should for the most part stop concerning ourselves with a body that has done
Nothing for this country. And that is exactly what the UN has done for the US, nothing. Pretty crazy to keep paying a premium to a organisation that operates as the UN does. It's time the UN finds out that we will no longer pay a dispraportionate share of costs while getting nothing but more demands and hassels for the trouble.
4) They have only in the last 10 days or so started disclosing and destroying the long range missles they were to have gotten rid of long ago. I get pissed when hearing people claim this, "he doesn't have any, you havn't proved it well enough." What crap. The chemical artillery shells found mean nothing of course, nor the missles, nor remote controled planes, ect. ect. I don't expect the man to make it easy to find this stuff and he hasn't. But you don't need chemical artillery shells unless you intend to use them, and you are safer yourself not filling them until needed. Just why do you think he didn't destroy the missles and shells before now? There is no doubt about if he has WMD or not. The only doubt is what is going to be done about it.
On you're last post we do agree that there is no agreement. And on the subject of Saddam and the UN that is about all we'll agree on.
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