On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jim Dixon wrote: <huge snip>
The evidence points to deep ties between Russia, France, and Iraq that goes back decades, plus somewhat weaker ties to China and Germany. Relations between the US and Baath-controlled Iraq were bad from the beginning; American bodies dangling from ropes in Baghdad were not the beginning of a great romance.
And all of this is meaningless: we simply had no right to invade a foreign, *sovereign* nation.
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