JDG wrote:
The right idea:
-military assaults on no less than four of its neighbors
-10,000 children dying per month (per UNICEF and WHO)
-a near permanent US presence in the Muslim Holy Land outraging Arabs
-four years and counting of defiance of UN weapons inspections
-torture of political prisoners
-brutality against Olympic athletes
-a near-permanent "lukewarm war" with Iraqis shooting at our pilots
-child prisons
-funding of international terrorists, particularly in Palestine
-no elections, no freedom of speech, religion, assembly, or the press
-anti-Semitic propaganda/brainwashing of 38 million Arabs
-genocide of the Marsh Arab culture
-the constant threat that Hussein would someday succeed in acquiring either
a ready-made nuclear bomb, or the necessary ingredients of a nuclear bomb
-plundering of oil revenues to build palaces while impoverishing the people
-numerous mass graves
-12+ years of sanctions, lies, broken promises, and failed negotiations
Oh yes, Doug - France, China, Russia, and Germany had the right idea allright. Without George Bush, things would have been so much better in Iraq. Don't you agree....
JDG - Who doesn't seriously expect anyone here to have the guts to actually
say that.
The right idea being that a poorly planned, abysmally administrated invasion and subsequent reconstruction, using the trademark Bush administration tactic of ignoring experts that don't come up with the "right" answer, would do little or nothing to solve most of the above problems. If we wanted to save lives, the kind of effort we've put into screwing up the situation in the Middle East (with global repercussions) would have gone a long way towards ending an epidemic that kills four million people world wide yearly.
You asked in a different post if Clinton would have been able to get France to join the "coalition". Clinton (or Gore for that matter) would have been able to interpret the intelligence well enough to realize that Iraq wasn't a real threat, and would have built on the good will in the wake of 911 to create a _real_ coalition of free nations united in the fight to rid the world of the blight of terrorism.
Of course that's _if_ 911 happens under the democrats, which, IMO, is open to question.
-- Doug
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