Who said anything about not getting involved in the first Gulf War. That was legitimate. Iraq invaded another country. At that time we would have been justified rolling into Baghdad and initiating a regime change. But not 10 years later. Not when he had dismantled his programs. Not when you have to manufacture evidence to justify a war. Not when there was no evidence of him repeating what he had done 10 years earlier. We had a legitimate opportunity and we let him slip through our fingers. He may have had ability to initiate a war but so does France, Germany, Russia, China, North and South Korea etc... It takes more than the ability to do something to warrant war.
How many of those 35 years of Sadam's atrocities did we support him? Give him guns? training? Chemical and biological weapons and or the knowledge required? How many of those years were we happy to watch Iranians and Iraqis kill each other? How many of those years were we supporting him while he committed those atrocities? Where is the evidence of Iraq's involvement in the Khobar Towers? or the USS Cole? How many died in those events? Who was responsible? Where are they today? Where were they found? There are more terrorist attacks throughout the world today than before 9/11 and before our invasion. Specifically there are more Al Qeada sponsored attacks. Bali? Spain? Chechnya? Philippines? There is more Al Qeada involvement in Iraq than ever before. Bin Laden had advocated the death of Sadam. We would have been far better off focusing on the terrorist rather than on Iraq. Had we focused our efforts on Afghanistan, and chasing terrorists where ever the hide we would have been far more effect at achieving the goal of stopping terrorism. But that war had slowed down and we let Bin Laden slip away so Bush needed a diversion. Enter Iraq. If thinking that we are killing & maiming thousands of Americans, Iraqis and others while hocking our financial future on a war that was not necessary to achieve the goal of eliminating terrorism is sour grapes, then sour grapes it. But what if we had brought the fight to the terrorists rather than Sadam? Oh yes and its nice to see Pakistan on board. After all, they don't want us in their country to look for Bin Laden, all evidence points to bin Laden being there and every time we provide the Pakistanis with intelligence on the where about of Bin Laden the information is leaked out before they can act on it. Kinda like a quarterback, telling the defense what play he going to run. They have received millions in concessions from use for their "participation" and have provided little to benefit the effort. Robert wrote: >>>And you think that Al Qaeda would never have attacked anywhere in the Middle >>>East if we had just not invaded Iraq, is that it? That's just factually >>>wrong. Khobar Towers? The U.S.S. Cole? You think these events were flukes? >>>Al Qaeda was in the middle of a global onslaught against the U.S. Since 9/11, we have not only been kicking the crap out of them around the world, we have gotten countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to wake up to the real danger Al Qaeda poses to them as well. People throw around the word "atrocity" so easliy. The real atrocity was Saddam 35 year rule of terror that lead to the deaths of a million or more Iraqis and Iranians, and the torture, rape, and maiming of untold numbers of people under his regime. Saddam is maybe the third most evil guy in history behind Hitler and Stalin as far as I'm concerned. Not just for what he did, but what he tried to do. Just imagine what the world would be like today if Saddam had a nuke (which he would have if not for Gulf War I), if he had stayed in Kuwait and later rolled into Saudi Arabia (which was next on his list), and then steamrolled Iran with the additional military might he could have built from oil proceeds. He could today be sitting on 70% of the planet's oil reserves with his finger on the nuclear trigger. Your tirade sounds like sour grapes to me. >Ken wrote: > If anything the amount of terrorism in the middle east has increased > due to our intervention in Iraq. Have you seen the news lately? How > many died this week in car bombings in Iraq? Saudi Arabia? How many > have been our are being held captive? How many Americans soldiers and > civilian contractors have been killed or maimed by terrorists? > Because they are in a war zone they don't count? Bush is an idiot. > We are worse off for our invasion of Iraq. $320 billion and counting, > what is the latest count of American forces who've died in Bush's > private war? 1,500+ ? How many maimed? 10,000 + ? and that just the > Americans. Countless innocent Iraqi's. In addition to the countless > Iraqi's fighting against the invasion of their country. Not to > mention the Italians, Japanese, British, Polish and others who've been > victims of this atrocity. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Save $10 Download ZoneAlarm Security Suite http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=66 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156673 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
