[FairOpinion]

The Republicans should read this to the Democrat Senators to remind them of why we went to war.

[whereasandsoforth]

Aren't the mass graves evidence enough of mass destruction? Why are the little mindless twerps called liberals so glad that weapons have not been found? Don't the clueless twits know that means they are in some other despot's hands?

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[boris]

"The moral of this story: Uncle Sam enforces his contracts even if a few years late. Keep your promises or you are gone. It's a powerful precedent that US leaders should make the most of. The campaign in Iraq is ultimately not about weapons. It's not about the United Nations. And it's not about Iraqi freedom.

"It is about keeping promises to the United States or paying the consequences."

Nations all around the world have been tweaking our noses for decades and the payback has been a bigger foreign-aid check.

This is nonsense.

Pakastan, our trusty ally, supported hundreds of madrassas (terrorist training camps) for years. Under pressure from us they have gone through the motions of closing some of them. The moment we are distracted, those camps will re-open.

Red China, when reprimanded by a U.S. Ambassador over bellicose moves it was making toward Taiwan, politely inquired over tea precisely how fond we were of Los Angeles.

In other words they threatened to nuke one of our largest cities, and we took another slice of humble pie with our tea.

Look at Saudi Arabia, our "friends" who financed Al Quaeda and other terrorist groups. When we asked if we could use that big base we built to save their sorry asses the last time around they told us "NO"...until certain pressures were brought to bear.

The ChiComs stole (and are stealing) us blind with illegal technology transfers. They knocked down one of our aircraft (an act of war) and disassembled it/reverse engineered it at their leisure. Eventually they gave it back to us in crates. What penalty was exacted?

North Korea started up their public atomic bomb program (the secret one never stopped). Boy did they ever pay. We increased the various bribes we pay them and said some bad things about them.

Quaking in their boots, the lot of them.

--Boris

[el_texicano]

"It is about keeping promises to the United States or paying the consequences."

In the words of Austin Powers: "Yeaaaah, baby..."

[el_texicano]

You know, I just got to wonder when Chirac is gonna find that "horse's head" in the bed with him so that he gets the message.

[palmer]

Feeling ever more confident with what he could get away with, Saddam finally closed down the inspections in August 1998.

Pipes rewrites history. The reason for the invasion is much more simple than he wants to admit. It's the same reason we attacked the former Yugoslavia. We are taking out the trash (Saddam, Milosevic) left over from previous Cold War or regional power military politics.

The correct slogan is "The United States always cleans up after itself".

[Kozak]

But 1998 was the era of post-history dot.com fog when Bill Clinton was diverted by the Lewinsky scandal.

Even if slick could have kept Monica "under the desk", he NEVER would have acted decisively to end the Iraqi game. The most he would have done is toss a few more cruise missles and posture.

[yoe]

There are several voices in the land just now that speak volumes of truth, cutting through the fog of political correctness, biased media and the propaganda of socialism; Daniel Pipes is one and Jim Robertson of NC is another.

http://www.DanielPipes.org
www.robinsonforcongress.com

[teeman8r]

it appears with the existence of the mass graves, that saddam himself was a weapon of mass destruction and the only justification needed to oust his regime... God bless the coalition and the greatest country known to man...

jmt, teeman

[Sergio]

Save for later read.

[ozzymandus]

Excellent point in the first 2 paragraphs.

[CyberCowboy777]

At least 67% of U.S. believe the POTUS did not ever lie or mislead anyone on the issue of WMDs.

I think that was a USA today or Washington Post poll.....

[Paul Ross]

No one has yet argued that because Saddam has not been located, he never existed. But that is what some are saying about the coalition forces' not finding actual WMD.

PING! Excellent point....

[Sparta]

BTTT

[DannyTN]

That's not a bad retort on the WMD issue...

"We haven't found Saddam either, but we know he was in Iraq too!"

[joesnuffy]

Lefties dont care about the truth
their only concern with events is being able to use them as rationalizations for seizing power

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