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totodeinhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 06:38 PM
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24. I'm not being hypocritical. Of course any life anywhere can't have a monetary value placed upon it.
I didn't support Bush's intervention in Iraq because he did not get authority from the UN to do it and it was based upon his false claims about WMD's and it was not couched in humanitarian terms like this Libyan intervention has been. And having said that, it is also true that we do not have the wherewithal to intervene everywhere in the world that innocent lives are being taken by a dictator. But we were able to do it this time and I support President Obama on this.
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  - I'm not being hypocritical. Of course any life anywhere can't have a monetary value placed upon it.  totodeinhere   Mar-21-11 06:38 PM   #24 
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