Posted on 04/09/2002 7:58:36 AM PDT by Edward Watson
What do you mean by "tolerate"? Sharon doesn't seem to be in a very "tolerant" state of mind.
Only because he got away with it longer. Did we do the world a net good by removing Hitler and keeping Stalin? Should we make a similiar decision in today's world?
You are way wrong on this -- way off and here's why:
- We need arab ports for resupply and to get tanks into Iraq--Yes there will be tanks needed
- We need arab all the countries surrounding Iraq to approve us flying over their air space
- We need arab support to base troops because we don't have anyplace big enough
- We need someplace to base A10's and Apache Helos.. We need these tank killers close by !
- We need arab support to conduct rescue missions when some of our aircraft get shot down (We do this with helos)
- We don't have enough aircraft carriers to sustain bombing forever..We need to base F117, F22 fighters etc.
- We need refueling ports (Arab) to refuel ships because Clinton de-funded refueling ships
- We will need staging areas for our airborne or whoever we decide to send in
I can go on and on but the fact is we need the arabs to take on Iraq and the more
we piss the arabs off the less likely it will be we can take on Saddam. What Israel is doing now is counter
to the USA getting all of the above. It's not about Bush doing a reversal or backtracking.
It's his military planners telling him what they need to go in to Iraq and the State Dept telling him what the arab countries
want in order for us to use their air space, bases, ports etc. to go in after Saddam.
You all can support Israel all you want and stomp your conservative chests all you want but the fact
remains we need the arabs to do what we have to do and after that we can tell the arabs to go to hell !
It's pure LOGISTICS !
No you're wrong.
Saddam is the main threat to both the Israel and the USA. It's not Rag Bag Yasser that threatens Israel it's the money and support behind the scenes. Take Yasser out along with his cronies and more will keep pooping up as long as there is pressure from the outside. Taking out Saddam removes most of this pressure !
There are many Arabs living in Israel that aren't terrorists and they live free - why ?
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