comparing the iraq of today to Nazi germany is virtually unbelievable--- I'm not going to even go into details, i shouldn't have to..
All the <me> arguments apply more to Korea (to pick the prime example) than Iraq. Please find me an argument that applies to Iraq only, and is not not more applicable to another dodgy country -----Original Message----- From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 February 2003 15:04 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: The Choice Before Us Crew, sorry to keep this going but I cant let this go by. Jim, Lets take this point by point. <you> Germany and it's allies were in a position to militarily, technologically and economically control much (perhaps all) of Europe and significant areas of Asia and Africa as well. Saddam is barely capable of posing a significant threat to his neighbors (who, if attacked would receive immediate UN military aide). </you> <me> Well, lets see. Hes got a decent sized army. Admittedly,it was much reduced ten years ago but that was ten years ago. hes had lots of time to rebuild it. I think its been proven that he has large amounts of chemical weapons and missiles that can deliver them to at least a hundred miles. So, I cant consider him insignificant even to our force that is currently massing over there. </me> <you> Germany and it's allies were actively engaged in a (succesful) war of conquest with obvious and active plans for further expansion. Iraq is not actively engaging in conquest (again, if they start there is every reason to go to war). </you> <me> if he thought he could get away with it, hed be at it again. </me> <you> Germany was actively engaged in genocidal practices. They continued these practices as long as they possibly could. Iraq is not currently engaged in such practices. </you> <me> do you know who the kurds are? ask them if they havent been the subject of constant chemical agent attacks over the past 10-15 years. </me> <you> Germany and it's allies were actively engaged in ground-breaking research to improve their war machines. Research that, if it were allowed to continue, would have shifted the balance of power perhaps uncontrollably. This included ballistic missiles, jet fighters, atomic weapons and so on. Iraq may be engaged in such research but nothing indicates that it could lead to as striking a balance of power (and, at worst such a shift would be localized rather than global). </you> <me> the new weapons of choice are dirty bombs and chemical agents. Hes working his ass off to make them. he has more experience deploying chemical weapons on live targets than anyone in the world. </me> DRE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
