Tony Macrini: Saddam Was Justified In Invading Kuwait.

Tony Macrini is the morning talk show host on WNIS, 790, in Norfolk, Virginia. One of the radio stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.

This morning Tony Macrini made the case that Saddam was justified in his attack and invasion of Kuwait. According to Tony the justifications included: Kuwait had been an Iraqi province. The Kuwaitis were stealing Iraqi oil. Saddam was on the US “payroll.”

Tony claims to be a Libertarian. He is violently opposed to the American campaign against Saddam. He sees no connection between 9/11 and our invasion of Iraq.

As a matter of logic, we must conclude that Tony believes either that:

• George Bush is stupid, or
• George Bush is evil

If Bush is stupid, who is misleading his and why?

If Bush is evil, what are his motives in attacking Iraq?

We will try to find out from Tony Macrini the answers to these questions.

Stay tuned.

COMMENT: In a related post via The Belmont Club, one commentator responded this way to America's actions during the 1940s. Our involvement would not have passed the Libertarian test:

Perhaps it was "missionary zeal" or perhaps not, but using the same logic as that which casts doubt on the “Zeal Factor" it certainly is not clear why we fought WWII as we did. The prudent, realistic thing to do would have been to negotiate with Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack; after all we planned to give up the Philippines in a few years in any case, and nothing else out there was ours anyway. Ask the Japanese and they would tell you it was "all about China" and Asians being able to exploit their own resources. Negotiations with Germany and Italy certainly could have assured England's safety and probably even limited the Axis intrusion into Africa. As for the Soviets, everyone except the American Communists could see it would be better for the Nazis and the Commies to kill each other off, so let them go at it without our involvement.
So it much have been Missionary Zeal that led us to go after our enemies with unbelievable ferocity and eventually awe-inspiring skill, covering the sea with ships, filling the sky with airplanes (over 100,000 fighter planes alone) and passing the nuclear threshold without as much as a pause.
Yeah, that must have been it. It certainly was not logical.
But boy, oh boy, was it right.