Because in Kosovo, the stated reasons for going in there was genocide and humanitarian concerns in the heart of Europe, in fact the same place where this other little conflict started, don't know if you heard of this one

The Great War

some people call it WWI, the war to end all wars. Just throwin that out there.

In contrast, in Iraq, the stated reasons for going in, weapons of mass destruction, and a connection to 9-11 were demonstrably false, and in fact were unproven at the time. Hope this helps you sort through the ashes of the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history.

I share your longing for a time when the adults were in charge.

by hazmat on 07/27/2008 01:25:26 PM EST

Unfortunely your "trap" is as flaccid as your tiny penis. Let me help you restore your manhood by explaining how the world works.

None of the reasons you've given here for invading Iraq are among those that were given in the leadup to invasion in '02-'03. Stay focused, please. But even had they been the primary reasons for going in, they would have been insufficient and the American public would not have supported it.

So tell me, you link articles from reputable sources like the NYT, Wapo BBC etc to support your claim that Sad Hussein was a brutal dictator (one I don't dispute) but you use...the Ottowa Citizen and commondreams.org 3 yr old articles to support a theory that the rationale for going to Kosovo was a hoax...? (?) You must think that a grave injustice was done to this man. My president was called Slick Willy. Yours? The butcher of the Balkans. I'm glad you've given me this opportunity to clear up this issue that has caused you so much internal distress. You've been holding it inside these ten long years. You're welcome.

Thanks for playing numnutz.

by hazmat on 07/27/2008 07:40:24 PM EST

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Unfortunely your "trap" is as flaccid as your tiny penis.

The word you're searching for is Pôku Bittsu (Pork Bits). 

Everything's smaller in Texas

If acting against the will of the people and engaging in elective invasions is all it takes to be called a brutal dictator, then we should thank our lucky stars that we got through eight years of Bush without being liberated by a Coalition of the Willing (knock on wood).

by OneHitKill on 07/28/2008 08:34:55 PM EST

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Trying to defend Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq by saying that Clinton illegally invaded Kosovo is irrelevant EVEN IF the Kosovo war was illegal.

Basically, Bush invaded Iraq contrary to the UN rules that required UN authorization for invasion. Even if the UN had authorized the Iraq invasion the authorization would have been vitiated and nullified because it would have been granted based on fraud and lies. 

Here's what Vincent Bugliosi says about the comparison:

"By way of footnote, it also isn't a legal defense for Bush to argue: 'Well, the U.S. bombed the Kosovo province of Yugoslavia in 1999 without UN approval, only that of NATO.'  That would be like a driver of a car saying to a police officer about to give him a speeding ticket: 'Why are you giving me one when cars on my left and right were  traveling just as fast as I?'  So, maybe the U.S. (in the Clinton administration) was also in violation of Article 2.  But by the way, there is no evidence that President Clinton and his people engaged in lies, deliberate distortions, and hence, criminality leading up to our bombings of Kosovo to stop the genocide of the ethinic Clbanians by the Serbs there.  Indeed, even if Clinton had lied to the American people in the Kosovo intervention, since not one American soldier lost his life, this would, by definition, preclude any murder prosecution of Clinton." (The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, page 283.)

So, notice that McCain directly opposed Clinton's conduct of the Kosovo war without ground troops, but it was Clinton's choice to not use ground troops that not only led to the "win" but  that meant no American troops died in Kosovo while if the war had been fought using McCain's strategy surely American ground troops would have been killed.

So McCain's claim that he knows how to win wars is spurious and the comparison is spurious also.

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 07/29/2008 02:44:35 PM EST

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