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To: Pikamax

Many people like Buckley are missing the point. The invasion of Iraq was not about the publicly stated reasons. The whole thing was basically tounge-in-cheek. It was about kicking a little Middle Eastern ass to make a point. If we were going to flex our muscle there was no better candidate than Iraq. The arabs perceived us as not finishing the job there or Somolia or Vietnam. The liberation of Iraq was about getting in the faces of the muslim world and saying "Dont #@$ with me!"

The reason the terrorists hit us on 9/11 is because they perceived us as weak. Iraq was more about making a statement, than any direct reason the media has obsessed on. I have no problem with it.


122 posted on 06/29/2004 7:43:01 PM PDT by ChinaThreat
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To: ChinaThreat
It was also about the fact that Saddam paid every Palestinian suicide bomber's family $25,000. Saddam was financing old Arafat's attacks on Israel. The Palestinian people were very upset when Saddam was deposed -- they lost their Sugar Daddy. Same goes for the Chirac and Russia.
129 posted on 06/29/2004 7:45:53 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 ("proud to be a Reagan Republican")
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To: ChinaThreat
The reason the terrorists hit us on 9/11 is because they perceived us as weak. Iraq was more about making a statement, than any direct reason the media has obsessed on. I have no problem with it.

So you disagree with the Bush-Wolfowitz rationale that the war was all about enforcing a resolution of the U.N.? And are you willing to sacrifice hundreds more American lives and tens of thousands more lives of innocent Iraqis just to kick a little tail in the Middle East?

WFG is generally right for about this one, for a change. However, even the Bush Administration no longer bases its defense on "WMD Programs". They've flip-flopped to "WMD-related program activities", thereby failing the laugh test yet another time.

145 posted on 06/29/2004 7:51:10 PM PDT by MurryMom
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