So when the Police tell you that they cannot do anything about your Missing Daughter for 72 hours... YOU act like a civilized Adult, right?
So......
Police == UN (I think)
Missing Daughter == what?
72 hours == more time for inspections?
Or you see a Timer counting down through your window in the Garage next door... and also see 2 Tons of Explosives there...
Okay, if someone puts explosives on my house, that is an attack.
Saddam has NOT attacked any other country in the past 12 years.
When he DOES, we can invade.
You see a guy brandishing a Squad Automatic Weapon with belts of ammo strapped to him on his porch... with a determined look on his face... You call the police... they say he has a Permit fo the weapon... but won't do anything untill *SOMETHING* happens... Did I mention this person JUST HAPPENS to live next to you... You act like a civilized adult. He then attacks and kills your wife because she came home and happen to drive in front of his house...
Where do YOU live?
If the guy next door HAS such a weapon...
LEGALLY
Okay, Saddam is LEGALLY allowed (by the UN) to stockpile automatic weapons and ammo and grenades and rockets.
He is NOT allowed to have nukes or chem-bio weapons.
It has NOT been shown that he has those.
I can come up many more situations where the circumstances are the same...
Maybe to you they are the same.
You're all over the place in your analogies.
#1. Missing Daughter, are you suggesting that I start shooting up the neighborhood until someone tells me where she is?
#2. Explosives and timer, this is an illegal act, committed by someone who has crossed my property line. This would be the same as if Saddam had invaded Kuwait. And what did we do then?
#3. Legally owned weapon but owner is behaving erratically in public. This would be the same as if Saddam had organized his troops on the border of a nation that was NOT threatening him. In which case, the threatened nation would, logically, dig in its troops to provide maximum defense in case of attack.
And I would call my wife and tell her to NOT come home 'cause the neighbor went crazy and I would join her at a hotel downtown. If he shoots up the house, I get the insurance money and he gets years in jail. If I arrange it correctly, I'd even get HIS house as part of the settlement.
Hmmm... portrail and justification
- (folkert)
- (31)
- March 20, 2003, 09:17:25 AM EST
