[steveegg]

I followed you up until the "war for more power" line. What we've got in the Middle East is something that, if not dealt with now, will turn around and bite us in the privates so hard that Dow 3000 won't matter. The extent to which I disagree with the conduct of the war is that we haven't acknowledged and targeted the root of the conflict (namely, the resumption of the Islamist march across the globe), only some of the symptoms (Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and now Saddam Hussein).

[arete]

I followed you up until the "war for more power" line.

Well what I'm saying is that Saddam is an easy target and he makes it easy for the propaganda machine to villainize him. We are focusing our attention on Iraq because it will be easy to grab their oil under the cover of a terrorist threat. It is an economic war. If you want to talk terrorism, then I think we should be looking at the biggest sponsors of terrorism like Iran. You could go on with Egypt and the Saudis. Really, how many Iraqis were on the 9/11 planes? This raises more questions in my mind as to where our concerns are and I believe that it is more about oil than terrorism right now.

Richard W.