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To: AlbionGirl
We're not in all those places at once in part because we haven't the resources to do so alone without resorting to nukes. Each of the problem countries is a unique puzzle to take apart; Iraq needed to be solved militarily since the nature of Saddam's reign made all other avenues to deposing him impossible.

However, Iran has a burgeoning democracy movement that could at any time overthrow the government there; Saudi Arabia has in its ruling family quite a number of people who are sincerely on our side against terror (for their own self-preservation, of course, but on our side nevertheless), and thus we can and are turning the factions there against each other; Syria and Lebanon can be kept cooped up by Israel until we are ready to deal with them militarily - since they are quite weak it is least risky to save them for later.

Personally, I am certain Saddam was up to his ears in 9/11. He had every reason to do so, a pattern of behavior that would clearly permit such a thing, and there is plenty of evidence showing he assisted AQ, and also that he knew of 9/11 months before it happened. However, during the middle of the war, it would be dangerously irresponsible for the US government to tell everything it knows, because that compromises intelligence assets - if the enemy knows what we know, they can figure out how we know it, and eliminate the people who are feeding us information. So while it might work on a domestic political level to spill all the beans, that can only be done at the cost of the lives of people who have taken mortal risks to help us.

26 posted on 07/07/2004 8:21:21 AM PDT by thoughtomator (End the imperialist moo slime colonization of the West!)
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To: thoughtomator
Personally, I am certain Saddam was up to his ears in 9/11.

You can believe anything you want, but in order to make it work in a debate, it has to amount to more than a 'belief.'

But that being said, as I posted to Valin, I'm fine with your agreement with the War. My view differs, and we'll just have to leave it there because I've made my case as to why, and I don't think it's a poorly thought out or frivolous one. Good people can disagree on this issue.

33 posted on 07/07/2004 8:36:05 AM PDT by AlbionGirl
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