At 3:53 AM 10/15/4, thomas malloy wrote: >> that have not attacked us. iraq did >>not attack us. > >Yah, what about the airplane that Saddam had in which they trained >people to take over it with short bladed knives. Then there is the >matter of Al Queda members being frequent quests in the country
Something that amazes me is the lack of recognition, even in the presidential debates, of the fact that we have been in a shooting war with Iraq since the gulf war. In the year or so prior to the Iraq invasion there were regular, sometimes daily, reports of Iraq shooting at US or British planes, or us shooting back. US and British pilots have been flying missions in harms way over Iraq for over 10 years. Iraq did not live up to the agreement that ended Desert Storm. It seems to me that was plenty of reason to finish off the war. The other thing that amazes me is the lack of recognition that if we wanted to do maximum harm to Iraq, to extract maximum revenge, this would have been most easily accomplished by immediately leaving the country after having destroying Iraq's heavy weapons. This would have left Iraq open to civil war and invasion by Iran. We also could have killed off Iraq's army in the field instead of letting them walk home. It seems no good deed goes unpunished in Iraq. The no-fly zones were created to protect Iraqis from Sadam, that is to say Iraqis from Iraqis. Perhaps we should simply threaten to pull out, or just pull out, and only protect the Kurds. It was not long ago South Koreans wanted US troops out - over a traffic mishap involving our troops. Now they are upset over our planned troop reductions. We were concerned about Iraq getting nuclear weapons. Many countries seem to have interest in obtaining weapons of mass destruction. It seems to me these countries must not be aware of the consequences of what they are doing. If a country with a small nuclear arsonal uses one of them, they have opened themselves up to unlimited war and complete annihilation. This kind of war the US can fight instantaneously with no additional manpower at all. It all makes no sense. It seems the world is going collectively insane. Regards, Horace Heffner
