defended up until his army disintegrated. If we had sent in a delta
force or green beret team they would have been killed.
larry
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:49:15 -0400, Tangorre, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Few points to ponder....
>
> We have the most elite armed forces in the world, surely we could have sent
> a team or teams into take out Saddam instead of announcing our arrival.
> Hmmmm, what a great idea, spare thousands of lives.
>
> Cheney and Halliburton, enough said; how crooked can you get?
>
> WMDs, Resilient, Vigilant, Waver, Regime... Sweeet, the answers to Bush's
> Buzz word Foreign Policy Bingo Game! I WIN!!! For my prize, I never want to
> hear any of those buzz words again!
>
> TANGORRE FOR PRESIDENT 2008!!!!!
>
> Mike
>
> > Almost. We went into Iraq to oust Saddam /because/ he had
> > undeclared weapons of mass destruction. The whole oppression
> > of his entire counry came up in side notes, but it was those
> > 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum, 500
> > tons of sarin, mustard and VX gas, not to mention that
> > completely false "damning" report of Iraqi agents trying to
> > buy yellowcake uranium from Niger. Aaaaaand, don't forget
> > that as far as the Administration's talking points were
> > concerned, Saddam and bin Laden were in cahoots, Iraqi agents
> > met with al-Qaeda operatives.
> >
> > Even with the 9/11 commission saying there was no connection
> > between Saddam's regime and Al-Qaeda, Cheney et. al. will not
> > ever admit they were wrong and they went to war on what is at
> > the minimum inexcusably shoddy intelligence, and at worse,
> > deliberately falsified intelligence to bolster the
> > Administrations pre-drawn conclusions.
> >
> > The ends do not justify the means - and Bush's Machiavellian
> > march to war can't just be brushed under the rug for the sake
> > of letting foreign policy bygones be bygones.
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> > Jim Davis wrote:
> >
> > >The main problem with the moral argument is that it's not
> > applied evenly.
> > >
> > >Yes, Iraq may be better off now, but the moral high-ground
> > was not the
> > >launching point of the war: there are perhaps dozens of places that
> > >have it just as bad or worse and we do little or nothing there.
> > >
> > >Moral reasoning may make us feel better in the aftermath, but it was
> > >never a primary reason for going to war.
> > >
> > >We didn't go in to free the Iraqi people; we went in to oust
> > Saddam.
> > >There is a subtle, but important difference there.
> > >
> > >Jim Davis
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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