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To: cinives

As a Christian, I don't feel a hell of a lot safer for overthrowing a regime that was mostly concerned with killing Saddam's Muslim co-religionsists.

The fact is that for all your talk of missile ranges we have been reduced to currying favor with Russia and China in order to achieve minimal restraints on Iran and North Korea.

(By the way, while I didn't support Clinton's Balkan adventures, you have a wild imagination if you think Islamists killed a tenth as many Christians as Islamists were killed by Christians there. Serbia will forever be stained by its butchery.)


376 posted on 11/14/2006 5:45:04 PM PST by libertylover76
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To: libertylover76

We are currying favor with Russia and China for two reasons that I can see:

1) Bush and Rice believe in talk first, unfortunately, that seems to go on forever. After all, it took us 2 years of talk to invade Iraq.

2) If we don't get some type of agreement with China and Russia on North Korea, we'll end up fighting China and Russia along with North Korea and that would be a "problem".

Regarding Bosnia, my point was there was no reason for us to be there. At all. Neither side was threatening us. Whereas in Iraq, we had good reason to be concerned that Saddam was funding people who were actively or in the near future going to cause the US harm.


386 posted on 11/14/2006 5:55:51 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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