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01 March 2003: "The Stranger on Iraq 02"

Well, I have to hand it to The Stranger, they're even-handed. This week, Sherman Alexei—the "Sherman" referred to in "Sherman's March" which I mentioned earlier—gets to issue his rebuttal.

It's not much of one, to be honest. The guy's erudite and eloquent, I'll give him that, but his main argument against military action is to cite a litany of misdeeds by US presidential administrations past and present, and conclude:

"Saddam Hussein is certainly a genocidal maniac, but how can the United States honestly continue to pass judgment on him and those like him without admitting to its own genocidal roots?"

The answer to that question, Sherman, is on the basis of 17 UN Security Council resolutions which Saddam has chosen to disregard over the past twelve years.

That, incidentally, is all Sherman actually has to say about Iraq; the rest of the "rebuttal" is filled with criticism of the Bush administration, and hope that someone better will come along and be elected president in 2004. That's a lovely sentiment, but it doesn't actually answer the question "So how do we deal with Iraq in the meantime?"

Sherman Alexei, "the Spokane without a plan" (yes, that does rhyme).

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