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To: ArneFufkin
I think it is reasonable to conclude that the Iraqi childrens prison with 300 kids aged 5 and up was a WMD. Those kids were put in a gulag because the Baath party wanted to destruct their families due to suspected disloyalty to Saddam. That one liberation point alone justifies the removal of these thugs. WMDs to me come in many variations.
212 posted on 05/08/2003 3:49:14 AM PDT by doosee
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To: doosee
We just smacked the Muslim World back into their pre 9/11 reality. Iraq was the big tough military, economic and diplomatic bully and nose-thumber to the West and we pancaked them flat.

That was enough for me, 150 of our heros died and tens of $billions were spent America to force terms of surrender on that regime in the first Desert Storm campaign. They flaunted their probation, fired at our pilots, plotted an assassination of our President, financed terrorism and trafficked in brutality and murder.

Saddam needed to go down in honor of those who were killed, wounded and poisoned in that first conflict. That was enough for me, sending a message of power and retribution to the "Arab Street". Don't eff with us, we're now factory direct to YOU, and we're going to do it on our American terms. Your European and U.N. protectors are null and void.

But, let's use common sense regarding the WMD thing: When Saddam included a female in his little Executive roundtable, it wasn't to demonstrate his commitment to equal status and opportunity for women in enlightened Iraq. She was "Madame Germ". I don't think Saddam had her there to provide ongoing updates on her progress in DISMANTLING biological weapon platforms and agents in an open and environmentally sensitive way.

Folks who desperately want Bush to fail are recalibrating the measuring sticks to satisfy that obsession. They're indistinguishable from the attack dogs at DU, and equally fangless.

214 posted on 05/08/2003 4:19:33 AM PDT by ArneFufkin
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