although that was never independently confirmed.
larry
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:47:28 -0400, Larry C. Lyons
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now let me get this straight. The Iraqi army was slowly
> disintegrating. It could no longer threaten the surrounding countries,
> much less invade them. By the time we invaded Iraq, the Iraqi army was
> barely able to control their own country. About 1/3rd of Iraq was
> already beyond Saddam's control - the Kurdistan region was autonomous
> and the Sh'iite region to the south was in the no-fly zone. Over 50%
> of the armour was inoperable, all but a few of the Iraqi air force was
> grounded, and the Iraqi navy's 2 patrol boats had already sunk at
> their docs because of lack of maintenance and parts.
>
> He needed to be stopped? Hell he wasn't going anywhere, and his regime
> was tottering already. He had no real connections to Al Queda - in
> fact given the ideologies behind Al Queda and the Ba'athist Party,
> they were natural enemies.
>
> After months of intrusive inspections for WMD the UN found nothing.
> BTW how many WMD's have the US tiger teams found so far? The only
> thing that even came close was a missile that was only in the
> prototype stage whose range exceeded the UN/US imposed limits by about
> 100 km.
>
> So far all that the Iraq war has done for the middle east has created
> an even larger training ground for the terrorist groups than either
> Chechnya or the Moro Islands in the Philippines.
>
> So why the war?
>
> larry
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:27:21 -0400, Monique Boea
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > there is no other solution
> >
> > he needed to be stopped
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:16 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: George W. Bush, a great president
> >
> > so how would you have fixed the situation?
> >
> > see if little saddam-ie poo would play nice, and remove his cloak of
> > nuclear/chemical/biological weapon secrecy, start treating women with
> > respect and make things nice for the iraqi people?
> >
> > if you don't like what someone else has done, its nice to have an
> > alternative...so what would you propose?
> >
> > ...tony
> >
> > tony weeg
> > senior web applications architect
> > navtrak, inc.
> > www.navtrak.net
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 410.548.2337
> >
> > visit www.antiwrap.com to send long url emails to your friends!
> >
> > -- dont mistake my perfection as arrogance
> > anonymous
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:17 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: George W. Bush, a great president
> >
> > > <cf_naysay>
> > > bullshit.....lets pick up the pieces, starting with this
> > > piece of shite and throw him out of office in november. Id
> > > rather stand behind our troops and support them than that
> > > corrupted scatmaster.....;-) </cf_naysay>
> >
> > AWESOME! Take that Tony, you... You... You... Bay area republiacn
> > reject!
> > j/k :-)
> > _____
> >
> >
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