Why did the United States choose to make war on Iraq? (GREELEY ALERT)

Daily Southtown - Chicago ^ | Friday, January 6, 2006 | Andrew M. Greeley

[Cheburashka]

Somehow missed him during the April conclave coverage: he got the last one (1978) so wrong, yet managed to turn it into several books, you would have thought someone would have tapped him this time around.
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I heard during or right after the conclave he was on with some morning TV female (might have been her Katieness, but I can't remember) and she tired to get him to something, anything critical of the church. He refused to rise to the bait, and this annoyed his interviewer no end. Which might be why you didn't see more of him around that time.
Right after that he had an announcement on his web site that he was writing a history of the 2005 conclave.
With my devious untrusting mind I wonder if he wasn't called in and reminded that he took a vow of obedience and ordered not to criticize the church if he was interviewed. As a carrot he would be given access to help him in the writing of his new book. This of course is all speculation on my part.
The book is out for what its worth.

[Berlin_Freeper]

There is a mountain of evidence that is going to be released soon that shows Saddam Hussein was training Elite International Terrorists for years in at least 4 Terrorist camps in Iraq.

Then this greeley jerk can straight to Hell.


New Saddam Documents Detail Terror Training

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/6/231235.shtml

[freema]

I didn't say anything about Fr. Greeley.

[pawdoggie]

We know that President Tyler provoked a war with Mexico.

We know that William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt pressured a reluctant President McKinley into asking for a declaration of war against Spain on the flimsiest of evidence.

We know (it's on the Johnson White House tapes) that LBJ sent the US military into a war he didn't believe he could win because he was afraid that Barry Goldwater would label him as "the Man who lost Vietnam" in the upcoming '64 Presidential campaign.

But it takes a jerk like father Larry Flynt Greeley to overlook Saddam Hussein's universally acknowledged threats, attacks and provocations against Americans and American interests, and manufacture a "Bush needed to expand his power" rationale for the War in Iraq.

[Lancey Howard]

Maybe some of those places the guy mentioned will be next. Like it or not, a military power like the US needs a war every ten years, or twenty at the most. The military is about the only institution where the people in charge wear their resumes on their chests, and a Pentagon full of birds and generals with no purple hearts or other combat ribbons in their salad would look pretty lame. It goes to reason that officers who have seen real combat are going to be better equipped to wage war whenever it is necessary.

That being said, Iraq was the perfect, deserving target - - a sadistic, murderous regime, a strategic location, and a bona fide threat to acquire more WMDs (which they had already used against the Kurds), as well as a history of attempting to assassinate a former US President, shooting at American planes, supporting and harboring terrorists (Abu Nidal, for example), and SCUD missle launches against our strongest Middle Eastern ally, Israel. Oil, which is of vital importance to our economy and therefore to our national security, is also certainly a factor, and nobody should be bashful about admitting it.