Posted on 05/15/2007 4:33:52 AM PDT by leadpenny
Rest in peace, 1st Lt. Bacevich.
Agreed.
Prayers for the family.
Are they threatening us?
Hear, hear.
North Korea's way more a threat than Saddam's Iraq ever was.
Saddam was laughingly on his way to a comeback on the world scene when we invaded.
Should we invade them now?
Pre-War “containment” of Saddam failed more each day.
1. The oil-for-food program was corrupt
2. The weapons inspections were a farce
3. US and allied planes were targeted
4. Uninspected flights to Baghdad gutted the sanctions
5. Terrorists were training in Iraq
6. Saddam supported terrorism - $25,000 to each family of a suicide bomber (Thanks, Prost1).
7. Saddam brutalized our fellow human beings
Saddam was thumbing his nose at decent people as he rewarded his collaborators in the UN and around the world.
Bush interrupted Saddam’s staging of a comeback.
Are they threatening us?
What does that have to do with your point, about the inherent morality in stopping a rape? Does a rapist need to threaten me personally while violating someone else? Now you're invoking self defense, which is something else entirely.
So, since you equated it with rape, please explain how the victims in Darfur and North Korea don't warrant our rescue, but Iraq does.
Riight, CNN talking point?
-Saddam invaded two oil-producing neighbors in the space of 10 years.
-He supported anti-Western Islamic terrorism and hosted Al Queda training camps.
-Members of his government met with and may have been funding Mohammed Atta and 9/11.
-He developed and used chemical weapons on his own people and against his opponents in battle.
-He had a proven propensity to attack his oppenents outside the borders of Iraq.
-He attempted to assasinate a former US president who was visiting a neighboring country.
North Korea has done none of this, restricting its activity to South Korea.
This is FR, not DU or some CNN message board. You'll have to do better.
I gave up trying years ago. Some people are impervious to both facts and reason.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=1001417
Romney recalls former aide killed by IED in Iraq
By Associated Press
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 - Updated: 04:44 PM EST
Why does something that hasn’t happened, and no inidcation that it will, matter?
Are they threatening us?
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That wasn't the point you made at all, was it? Your analogy specifically called for US to be the world's policeman.
Not at all.
You missed the earlier part of the discussion, I'd guess.
Otherwise, you would know I was responding to the accusatory statement that what we were doing was immoral.
I was saying it was not immoral to help weaker people.
I was not saying we are obligated to solve everyone's problem
Just because a boy scout helps one little old lady across the street, does not obligate him to run around looking for other little old ladies to help.
Nope, your point was clear to us, the US as world cop. You even used the word police to make your argument. If you want to spin away from it by all means, go ahead.
“Katy Bacevich, 22, one of the soldier’s three sisters, recalled her brother as a born leader who answered a calling to serve his country. Andrew Bacevich joined the Army in July 2004 and had been stationed in Iraq since October with the Third Brigade Combat Team, First Cavalry Division.
“He felt it was an important thing to do, regardless of the war that was going on,” she said. Despite her father’s strong feelings about the conflict, Katy Bacevich said, “he never would discourage my brother from doing what he wanted to do.””
Speaks loudly for the father and the family he raised!!! The love and respect they have for each other
As a mind reader, you would starve.
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