Senator Byrd

[Michael Perelman]

This is the first time that we have attacked without some pretext, such as
the students in Grenada.  We only think that Saddam might do something in
the future.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:09:17PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> >But besides the fact that
> >that 98% of such attacks were baldly imperialistic (and thus not what a
> >Senator would consciously want to base himself on (Oh yeah! It's just like
> >when we installed Somoza! See, perfectly legitimate!)), not a single one
> >of them could (b) be considered preemptive in the sense of preempting a
> >threat.
> 
> And Iraq isn't either, really. Warner's right that the U.S. has 
> attacked first many times, and Byrd was being sanctimonious and 
> dishonest.
> 
> Doug

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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