On 5/14/07, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A threat to our allies perhaps, I'll grant you that. Not to us.
President Clinton explains Iraq strike: Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world > Note also that Clinton never invaded them - the threat posed was not that > severe. Clinton's actions were in congress with the notion of "subdue and > contain" and it was clearly working. Clinton bombed them without permission from congress. 26 June 2000 - "The Vice President reaffirmed the Administration's strong commitment to the objective of removing Saddam Hussein from power, and to bringing him and his inner circle to justice for their war crimes and crimes against humanity," > Then it should have been simple to gather some direct evidence of that. Check Syria? > No worse than the threats posed by the same kind of camps in Syria, Pakistan > or Iran. In fact such camps in Iraq were almost definitely less of a threat > because of the sanctions and the scrutiny the country was under. In any > case such camps, being - you know - TERRORIST CAMPS - are poorly dealt with > by attacking a country's central regime and civilian infrastructure. Sanctions didn't work, they only made teh madman wealthier. > I'm saying what I've been saying: that the war Iraq has left us less secure > than we were. That the hemorrhaging of resources aborad have left us less > able to deal with threats at home (the argument "fight the terrorists over > there so we don't have to here" has little meaning when most terrorists are > home grown). I don't see many American terrorists. Are you talking about the school shooting? > Are you honestly saying that our resources are NOT stretched thin? We can't > provide adequate care to our wounded veterans. We find it a necessity to > extend and multiply tours of duty. We find it difficult to maintain order > even in the so-called "green zone". We're stretched thin but that doesn't make us weak. As Surge Begins To Take Hold, Tribal Leaders Turn on Qaeda http://www.nysun.com/article/54368?page_no=1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234668 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
