--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who could disagree with most of what he is saying? > But why not keep > working with our allies and the U.N. and keep the > pressure on Hussain > while continuing to support internal dissent. > Actively seeking a > peaceful solution has the potential of reaping all > or most of the > benefits of an immediate, preemptive attack and > avoids the serious > problems mentioned along with a few more I can think > of including not > having to rebuild the Iraqi infrastructure after it > is destroyed and the > good will of the international community. > > Doug > > GCU Patience is a Virtue
Unfortunately, our so-called "Allies" could. It should be obvious by now that if President Bush hadn't declared his willingness to attack with or without UN sanction, our allies would have continued to advocate what they advocated in the past - doing absolutely nothing. France has continually pushed to cripple any attempt to weaken Saddam. It opposed the sanctions regime. It crippled the inspections. When the inspectors were thrown out it prevented any attempts to reinstate them. When Bush declared that, with or without them, we would take care of him, they chose a sanctions regime as the least they could get away with - and then picked an incompetent like Blix to make sure that the inspectors wouldn't find anything. If Bush had been "actively seeking a peaceful solution" like Clinton he would have gotten _nothing_ - just like Clinton. Do you have an alternative explanation why the very countries that have done everything possible to prop up Saddam since 1991 and are still doing everything they can to stop us from getting rid of him now decided to support inspections only _after_ President Bush said that is was the very least thing he would accept? Gautam __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
