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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Rwanda was a sovereign nation too. Under your reasoning, it would be morally unsupportable for a nation to invade Rwanda as the government ordered the slaughter of its own people. And why you say? Because the Rwanda government's proclamation that all members of the minority group, the Tutsi's, must be raped and slaughtered (to the point where the citizens were so exhausted from using their machetes they'd chop the achilles tendons of their victims and then leave them to cry all night while they went and slept and came back in the morning to finish chopping at them) is simply "behavior that is not in accordance with our standards". I wonder how this little guy, one of the survivors who has to take a rest from the food line, feels about your cultural relativism?
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Rwanda cannot be compared to Iraq. We did not invade Iraq to liberate Iraqis. We said that AFTER we invaded. Prior to invasion, the reason for the invasion was WMD.
Had Bush argued initially that we should invade Iraq for humanitarian reasons, rather than merely default to that basis as an after the fact excuse, your comparison would be valid. But that didn't happen.
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