[AdamSelene235]

Cato believes we can bluff SH!

CATO had been warning that non-state players such as Al Quaeda were the primary threat to national security long before 911.

Bush I allowed the conclusion of Gulf War I to be dictated by the United Nations and the "international community". This what resulted in our stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia: The motive for the 9-11 murders.

We ended up having to go to war twice to do the job we should have completed the first time had we not surrendered our sovereignty to the United Nations. Thousand of innocent Americans and Iraqis died as a result. Now the American taxpayer must finance a complete political and economic transformation of the Middle East. We're just getting started over there. We have yet to even name our true enemies, the Saudis. You'll excuse me if I'm not awed by the brilliance of our foreign policy.

[tpaine]

We ended up having to go to war twice to do the job we should have completed the first time had we not surrendered our sovereignty to the United Nations. Thousand of innocent Americans and Iraqis died as a result. Now the American taxpayer must finance a complete political and economic transformation of the Middle East. We're just getting started over there. We have yet to even name our true enemies, the Saudis. You'll excuse me if I'm not awed by the brilliance of our foreign policy.
47 -AS235-

It will soon become apparent, imo, that a major goal of the Iraq war was to gain a base from which to control the Saudi 'situation', which is supposedly about to collapse.
- As you say, we are there for the duration.

[cinFLA]

You'll excuse me if I'm not awed by the brilliance of our foreign policy.

And thank god that the CI was wrong! Or should I say, thank Bush.