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1; And how do you explain the economic and demographic boom in the late 40s and the 50s?
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People coming home from war and getting on with their lives?
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2; Saddam was acting very suspiciously and not letting Blix and Co. snoop around. Not to mention that stockpiles of tactical level weapons like various gases and SCUDs have been found, not to mention the "Super Gun" project 10 years earlier.
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He was cooperating towards the end. The Coalition didn't even give the weapon's inspectors time to analyse the 1000+ page documents Saddam published explaining what had happened to his weapons programs. Scuds and gases don't count as Saddam didn't deny he had them.
And thanks for providing me with a bug guffaw of laughter over the Super Gun - aside from the fact that the thing was never near completed, mentioning 10-year old technology (and I'll include the scuds and gases in that) is irrelevant to what was claimed as an ongoing weapons buildup.
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3; The only folks the US is really oppressing in the 1st category is terrorists and suspected terrorists. Also, how does the US oppress women by allowing them to vote, run for office, and have the exact same rights as men? I agree gay rights are a little behind in America, but that's changing these days. On the 4th and 5th, regardless of the masturbatory fantasies of the tinfoil hat brigade, people aren't being shoved into black vans and marched into secret James Bond-esque camps to be tortured for Halliburton. Guantanamo has only had a few incidents related to journalists and mostly those have been resolved.
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Women's rights is a debatable inclusion in that list but it's not hard to find people willing to argue that, while women are better off than they were 50 years ago, there's still plenty more to go, e.g. actual equal wages rather than just equal minimum wage, maternity rights, the number of female CEOs, etc. As for Human Rights, you'd have to be blind not to recognise the retraction of Habeus Corpus, the other goings on at Guantanamo, not to mention the CIA rendition programs as a breach of human rights.
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4;No, create the Democratic Empire and then wait for 100 years for everything to clear up. Nothing to do with waiting for terrorists. We should get them now.
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Huh?