At 09:00 PM 5/17/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >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 >> > >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.
Exactly which of the above problems have not been solved? And how does this compare to the number of the above problems that have been solved? JDG
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