I think we should have wacked him. We have guys out here. Scary guys. That can do incredible things.
We could have had regime change in a night and not had to bear the cost. I think that the presidential ban on assassination in nothing short of asinine. Treasonous. We'll send thousands to die, but we can't kill one leader? F-That. The other thing, he positioned himself not only as a political, but military leader as well. Appearing in public in uniform and under arms. That's a legitimate target as far as I'm concerned. > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:56 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Ship Of Fools > > It's not that it's sooo wrong... > > But it's sooooo hypocritical to criticize the US, when you're > arming the very same people. > > I wasn't a fan of the decision to go into Iraq, we had world > wide support for the Afghanistan war, we should have stayed > there and finished that mission. > While Saddam was a douchebag, he was a douchebag who's > strings we could pull pretty easily. There were a thousand > other ways that Saddam could've bee toppled without the > bloodshed (provided that we had an intellegence community > that was worth a shit) > > Michael Grant wrote: > >> Oh yeah, how soon people forget. I was actually going to hold onto > >> that until later, but you beat me to it scott. heh. > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Scott Stewart wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Lets not forget about the millions that Germany was raking in, > >>> building Saddam's bomb shelters and the billions that France was > >>> making selling arms to Iraq. > >>> > > > > Starts with "D" and ends with "estraction." It's well known > that I'm the intellectual equivalent of a weavel, but how > does this point have anything to do with the U.S. in Iraq? > > > > Interesting that it's sooooo wrong that France and Germany > did business with Iraq. Because the U.S. would never do > business with any country/group that it was ideologically opposed. > > > > recent: > > http://americawideopen.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/us-funds-al-qaeda/ > > > > a timeline starting in the 70's: > > > http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timel > > ine&startpos=0#western_support_for_islamic_militancy_20561 > > > > and of course let's not forget that the us hoisted Saddam > into power in the first place: > > > http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/husseinindex. > > htm > > > > Just some food for thought when taking the high road on this issue. > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
