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I still place a big slab of blame on Chirac for making the Iraq war necessary. He did everything in his power to protect Saddam and I believe Saddam thought he'd get away yet again with maybe some marginally more harshly worded sanctions because of that support.

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‎"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
—Senator Barack Obama

A) Obama is wrong. The only thing that says the President cannot do that is the War Powers Act, a law of questionable Constitutionality at best.

B) Even the war powers act only limits that action to a short duration, 60 or 90 days (I don't recall exactly which at the moment)

C) Obama's definition of "unilateral" almost certainly does not include action authorized by the U.N., which, while disturbing, would still not make him inconsistent

D) The Senate does not interpret the Constitution, so what he said has very little meaning beyond consistency with himself. That's not even that big of a deal; he may have changed his mind in the 2+ years he's been in the White House.

E) When and in what context did that quote occur?

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It occurred some time back in the context of attacking Iran. I agree that he isn't correct, but it still makes him a hypocrite and I don't think he's worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

It does not make him a hypocrite. This is not a unilateral action.

I don't think that he meant unilateral in the context of foreign treaties.

It does not necessarily make him a hypocrite. People can and do change their opinion. You would be more correct if you said "it makes him look like a hypocrite" or "it is likely he is a hypocite."

I'd say the Nobel Peace Prize is pretty much water over the damn and irrelevant to the Libya situation.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Well, something's wrong with that quote, in that case. He wasn't a senator at the time of the Iraq invasion. Oh, wait, he was in the Illinois State Senate at that time. So, not quite the same as plain ol' Senator.

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Iran, not Iraq. Better called Persia actually.

Yeah, Persia not Babylon, and Byzantium is right out.

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"Iran" is how you say "Persia" in their language.

Also the Wikipedia article for "Iran" and "Persia" is the same.

Thanks a lot guys, now I've got this stuck in my head.

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Woohoo! I had it in my head too.

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Really, "Iran" is how you say "Persia" in, wait for it - "Persian" (aka Farsi)? Your knowledge is stunning, and your confidence is dumbfounding.
Why on earth would you say it's "better called 'Persia'", when it's called "Iran" in the West (where you live), and you believe it's called "Iran", "in their language"?

Actually, "Iran" in "Persian" is "Ērān".



You know I really do understand how you can write code. You sound just like a bot.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Then my work here is done.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Are you serious? That's nearly the same thing. And then you have to personally attack me? You have issues.

I think that Persia sounds cooler because of the history so that's why I said that. Also if you look at any map before the 1930s it's called Persia.

In the late 1400's, America was known as "You'll fall off the edge of the Earth! Stop! Turn back!". Something tells me your methods are flawed.

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Dude, wikipedia says it, so it's fact.

afk to edit the grassy knoll wiki.

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The name Persia was arbitrarily changed to "Iran" around 1930. There was no good reason and no regime change even or expansion or contraction of territory. Look it up.

D'oh, sorry, completely missed that. Don't mind me, carry on.

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Lex is somewhat right about Persia/Iran...and somewhat wrong. Before WWII the Shah petitioned the world to use the Farsi word for their country, Iran. Persia was how it was known to the rest of the world, named so by the Greeks, after the name Persians gave to their language and their people, the "Parsa."

If you want to get technical, the people of Iran are Persians, not Iranians, but the country is Iran, not Persia.

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So Egypt should be called something else too? Greeks don't call Greece by the English word for it either.

I'm actually 100% right here.

They did when I was there.

I don't think they use it with eachother.

What, you don't think I blended in seamlessly?