Posted on 02/04/2003 4:41:12 PM PST by Barandth
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Pro-war camp can't make the case that an attack is in national interest Feb. 2, 2003 Orange County Register Column By Ted Galen Carpenter Vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
President George W. Bush, his surrogates, and the White House's pro-war allies in Congress and the media routinely cite an array of reasons a U.S. military campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein is a good idea.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.ocregister.com ...
Here's another problem...
War on terrorism... Saddam Hussein harbors Al Queda Terrorists and Trained them at Salman Pak. In addition there are other reports of ties from Iraqi Agents to the first WTC Bombing in 93, and the OKC Bombing. See OKCBombing.org for more information.
The U.S. MUST be allowed to carry out conflicts that are in the interest of our national defense.
I never heard anyone proposing this seriously. I detect a strawman here.
We dont have to worry about it if Saddam is 'THREATENING'. The whole problem is that we KNOW he is in pursuit of Nukes and he is NOT Threatening. Everyone knows that the Threat of Nukes is deterrable, its what you DONT know that will get you.
Saddam is not going to threaten, Saddam is going to hand off his finished product to an Al Queda Operative and detonate it in the port of baltimore.
Im certain that it will be traced over to Yemen where the fingerprints all disappear convieniently.
Nor is it likely that Iraq would risk its destruction by attempting to assasinate the President of the United St...oooppsss. They DID do that. Likely is not good enough any more after 9/11. Plus we know for a fact Saddam funds terrorism in Israel. Other arab nations also fund terrorists also, but Saddam is the spookiest and has been the most unpredictable.
It would serve as a recruiting poster for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. However much Americans might believe that an attack on Iraq is justified, it would be perceived throughout the Islamic world as aggressive U.S. imperialism.
We heard this prior to invading Afghanistan to remove the most Islamist and extreme of any arab regime on the planet, the Taliban. Where is the condemnation and arab rage on the streets? Hhhmmm... No self respecting Arab is going to miss the very secular Saddam Hussein or his cronies. Saddam's own people want him gone and they WILL be dancing in the streets just like the happy young girls in Afghanistan who now can attend schools without fear of execution.
Read this for interviews with real Iraqis who want Saddam gone
When the Enemy Is a Liberator (Iraqis want Saddam gone, but are wary of US)
Very disappointing. I expect a higher quality article from the Cato Institute.
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