[arete]

I have to agree with you. The politicians wouldn't even be talking about Iraq if our own economy was in good shape. If the rest of the Arab states don't pony up what is expected of them in the way of oil and investments in the US to keep us out (of Iraq), we're going to destablize the region with an invasion. My guess is that it is more like extortion rather than a mugging, but it could be both.

Richard W.

[SamAdams76]

I have to agree with you. The politicians wouldn't even be talking about Iraq if our own economy was in good shape. If the rest of the Arab states don't pony up what is expected of them in the way of oil and investments in the US to keep us out (of Iraq), we're going to destablize the region with an invasion. My guess is that it is more like extortion rather than a mugging, but it could be both.

That's such a ridiculous assertation. In case you have been living in a cave the past year or so, there was this little terrorist incident that occurred on 9/11/2001. The United States simply cannot afford any more days like that. And if it is determined (as it has been) that Saddam Hussein's Iraq poses a danger to U.S. security due to their flagrant violations of the 1991 cease-fire arrangment and the fact that they continue to work on weapons of mass destruction that could be used against the U.S., then we have every right in the world to displace that regime.

We have been technically at war with Iraq since the summer of 1990, when they invaded Kuwait. That is why we continue to maintain a presence there as well as "no-fly zones" in the north and south. The war never ended. There was a cease-fire in 1991 based on promises that Iraq has failed to live up to. Now it is time for us to start enforcing them (as we should have done many years ago).

The notion that we are targeting Iraq as blackmail for the other Arab nations to supply us with investment money and oil is outrageous. Sounds like this something right out of the Democratic/Socialist playbook.