Posted on 08/15/2008 10:05:15 AM PDT by mojito
That map is a roar. Do we have the technology to do that? It’s all sand anyway. Put some structure out there. Imagine the bass and walleye fishing. Oh yeah, wouldn’t be fresh water.
No doubt about it. D’ohbama has clinched the Person-With-A-Funny-Name and Person-Who-Doesn’t-Look-Like-the-Men-on-the-Dollar-Bills votes. The Typical-White-Person vote is another matter.
Excellent, well thought out and articulate post. Agree 100%!
In Iraq, IMHO, we eliminated MANY of those terrorists that, lacking a “closer to home” opportunity to kill Americans, would have been over here killing civilian Americans. Perhaps the cost of the Iraq War must ultimately be balanced against the cost of having several 9/11 style attacks here on our soil? When you view the monetary, and even the combat casualty, costs of the Iraq War as contrasted with what multiple terrorist attacks would have cost in life and treasure, the losses become more bearable. As my young Special Forces nephew tells me, knowing that “home” is safe makes everything worthwhile—the same thing my husband told me while he was in Vietnam.
The oil rigs would provide stucture. Think Blue Marlin.
The oil rigs would provide structure. Think Blue Marlin.
Gee Francis, we didn't know, did we? Then again, we have found plenty of stuff there like a few hundred tons of yellowcake and hundreds of chemical warheads from before the Gulf War that still had not been destroyed.
And let's remember what sort of bother Saddam was for his neighbors.
Putz.
The McObama world of the postmodern managerial state. But since he proposed it in Berlin how about the Obama McWelt. Sort of a post-western, post-Christian Euro-Disneyland for global socialists, global warming freaks, and aging hippie Bobos with genital issues and Blackberries. They're all busy text-messaging or splicing up their own embryos as they are invaded from the Middle East.
If Bush lied about WMD, it was a lie he was guilty of repeating, but the Democrats were guilty of creating.
What I've never seen analized is a post-Saddam Iraq if he had been allowed to stay in power. Saddam was almost seventy and according to some sources becoming more unhinged. I would surmise that he planned for one his equally vile sons to take over on his death. But I wonder if either would have had the ability to maintain an iron grip on Iraq? They might have been more amenable to Al-Qaeda since Zarkawi was already allowed to operated within the country.
Soft power only works if there is the threat of hard power behind it. Neither is an exclusive solution.
If our enemies believed we could exercise hard power again, we'd be able to be a whole lot gentler with countries like Iran that we are likely to end up having to be.
Not enforcing the terms of the ceasefire was a worldwide foreign affairs and national security disaster, and by early 1995 not enacting regime change became inexcusable.
You can only argue that it wasn't the right war if you forget what was happening throughout the Middle-east, swaths of Asia, and northern and eastern Africa.
What happened with Libya alone made the Iraq re-engagement worth it several times over...though I would also contend things in Iraq would have been much cheaper if we didn't have a major party rooting for our defeat and otherwise encouraging our enemies to stay in it until they can get in power.
Amen.
Leftists about Iraq:
Iraq has WMD!
Iraq will use WMD!
Iraq had no WMD!
We are losing!
We can’t win!
The surge won’t work!
The surge is working!
We may win!!
We WON but it wasn’t worth it!!
There's another logical problem...not only did we not find the WMDs we thought he had, but we also didn't find most of what we KNEW (as in put hands on, inventoried and took samples) he had.
Iraq was a victory worth fighting for:
1. In early 2003, 4 coutnries were pursuing WMDs. Today, we are down to one potential danger (Iran) on WMD front.
2. Terrorism: AQ came to play in Iraq, and lost. by fighting there, we took out the heart of AQ spirit and key fighters like Zarqawi. Better we fight there than here.
3. Draining the swamp of despotism: The long-range solution to muslim extremism is the construction of stable democratic nations in the muslim world. Iraq is a very good start.
The Iraq war, history will show, will be in our long-range national security interest. We have one a key victory in ridding the world of rogue regimes that pursue WMDs and support terrorism.
Bingo. You do the right thing. If you cant do that in power you never deserved to win in the first place. And no, the Democrats should be kicked out of power for a generation for their horrible behavior in trying to undermine the Iraq policy and lose the war we just won, but thats one reason I'm not a Democrat.
btt
Yep. We can believe, as the left wants us to, that he destroyed them in the desert and forgot where. I believe that they still exist in syria, lebanon, iran and buried in iraq.
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