Heard Rummy say that 'any nation has a right to defend itsself.'

[keithyboy]

This,of course, was in response to a question about the Israeli assassination of the Hamas spiritual leader.

My question is, didn't Iraq have a right to defend itsself then? Doesn't every Arab nation have a right to have weapons to defend itsself? If assassinating leaders we don't like is acceptable, then don't other nations have the right to attack us and assassinate our leaders? What kind of convoluted, doublespeak is this? Why must we sanction every horrible thing that Israel does? Don't Palestinians have a right to defend themselves too?

[yardwork]

1. I guess that Iraq had a right to defend itself

when we invaded, right?

[mstrsplinter326]

2. But not against our nuclear threat...

[forgethell]

6. They sure did,

what they didn't have was the ability. But then we have the right to defend ourselves against those trying to kill us, even if we invaded. That's what makes war hell.

[wildmanj]

3. why

its called the power of the almighty dollar----allows the one who has it to speak very loudly---and the one without it the voice is barely audible

[Deja Q]

4. Humanity is corrupt

Why did we entrust power to the dregs of the world?

What's the point of having a "self-governing" society when we're anything but?

It's all more proof that the US is a Hypocracy. (That's "democracy" and "hypocrisy" amalgamated. Not a misspell.)

[belle]

5. "Some people are more equal than others."

[RichM]

7. You're right of course. But the unstated assumption in Rummy's remarks

is that the usual rules don't apply to the US, which is, as everyone knows, good and pure and completely beyond questioning.