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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
They mostly weren't doubting the WMD, as I recall and perceived -- and there was no rational dispute that Hussein was in violation of the various resolutions. They opposed the War because they, variously hate War, or hate the U.S., or hate the U.S. using force against third world nations, or feared the consequences, or believed that a few WMD in Hussein's hands weren't enough justification.
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We must have been going to different murder marches. I thought a large part of the compelling case against war was the quasi-criminal "innocent until proven guilty" standard of proof --- that you can't* invade a sovereign nation until you had the evidence the UN and Blix were looking for. "Let the inspections work" was a sincerely held belief, at least among My People. Then again, I hang out with rational people like Ty and Sidd who reserved the right to bust a cap in SH's ass if he held a nuke, and who reacted to Powell's UN speech with caveats like "if true." Shit, as I recall, some of us changed our position based on that speech, b/c of Powell's greater credibility among the left and the belief that while Bush can pound the tables with his core voters, he's not going to bluff the entire world community.
*Really, "shouldn't," as should be obvious by now.
