>Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq and he didn't care if he had to go it >alone. So he essentially did just that. Gathered up a couple of >buddies, bought off a few more and went to war regardless of >international opinion or support.
I agree in one sense. The Bush team knew they needed to act. I believe that Bush saw Iraq as a threat, but he also saw it as a beach-head for our assault- military, diplomatic, and cultural- on Islamo-fascism in the Middle East. And that is exactly what it has become. >How many Iraqi terrorists have been involved in bombings or other >terrorists activities in the USA? UK? Germany? Spain? How about >anywhere outside of Iraq? We don't know, but we now know that Iraqi intelligence did in fact have ongoing communications with Bin Laden in the 90's, and he did play host to Abu Nidal among others. As Bush said, if a state supports terrorists, they are part of the problem. >How many Saudi terrorists have been involved in international terrorist >activities? Tell me again why Iraq was a more important target in the >war on terrorism? Their is a battle going on inside Saudi Arabia between various members of the royal family, some of whom favor more openness, and others who favor Wahabbi extremism. Our policy has been to back the group in favor of openness. That battle will not be fully resolved until King Fahd dies. When he dies, Abdullah, who leads the openness group, will become King, and I believe he will try to crush his internal enemies. This isn't to say that Abdullah is some kind of democrat, he isn't. But he supports reform. He also supports peace between Israel and the Palestinians. >Other than the invasion of Kuwait over a decade ago, what other >international transgression has Iraq committed? Let's see. A war against Iran that killed two million people. Oh, and the attempted assassination of former President Bush. But hey, suddenly crimes against humanity don't matter anymore? I thought you liked the U.N. and their globalist, it doesn't matter where you are, you need to submit to the new multilateral "world order"? >Sadam was a very bad and abusive leader. He shouldn't have been in >power. However, I do believe the US supported him throughout the >1980's. But to go after him under the guise of a war on Terrorism and >WMDs is just wrong. It has cost us billions of dollars, thousands of >lives and a huge loss of respect from the international community. And >what have we gained? We are no safer, Iraqis are no safer and the >International community is no safer. If by "the international community", you mean the countries that Saddam bribed with oil-for-food money, we didn't lose their respect, we earned their dislike. And what have we gained? We have forced a shadowy enemy into the open. We have taken the fight to this enemy. We now understand more about Al Qaeda than anyone in the Clinton Administration, including supposed anti-terror "genius" Richard Clarke, ever knew. We have killed or captured many members of their leadership, we have disrupted their operations around the world, including in Europe and the U.S. Most importantly, we have finally framed the fight in a way that gives us a chance at winning. We must defeat the forces of fascism that are trying to hijack the Muslim faith in the name of armed conflict against the rest of the world. In order to win this war, we must help people in major Muslim countries to realize their aspirations for a better world. Liberty, justice, and economic opportunity are our greatest weapons in this fight. Bombs are guns are necessary but secondary tools in the conflict. We are fighting a war of ideas. >We have given cause for thousands of Muslims to join a jihad against us >and have nothing to show for it. And Bin Laden is still a free man >directing the worlds single most deadly terrorist organization. You are totally ignoring the underlying causes of Islamo-fascism. These lunatics hate us, hate our civilizations, and they wish to destroy everything we cherish and replace it with a 12th century-inspired Islamic state spanning the globe. Their aims have nothing to do with us and everything to do with the ongoing religious civil war inside the Muslim world. You seem to think that if we just left the Muslim world alone that none of these attacks would have happened. Is that really what you are arguing? That we should stay out of the fight and hope for the best? The Islamo-fascists long-ago identified the U.S. and Israel as their primary enemies in the world- long before Bush, long before Iraq. It just took us a couple of decades to figure it out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:165136 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
