Iraq talk fuelled by Kosovo pull-out

Financial Times ^ | July 12 2002 5:00 | By Judy Dempsey

[eastforker]

I am with you,also,I have one son enroute to Kuwait.If we don't do it now ,when.5 Years from now when his military is stronger and he has more WMD.There are some on this forum that do not have a stomach for war no matter what the reasoning behind it.Yes,war is ugly,messy and bloody,thats what war is,killing the enemy.Better them than us IMHO.

[BnBlFlag]

The Arab, Saddam, does not consider the Kurds "his own people".

[Wraith]

What matters is that I think. Have a nice life. Oh, BTW, will your kids be there when Iraq is invaded or will someone else's sons and daughters bleed and die? Will you be there, fighting for what you believe in?<\b>

Yes the question here is do you think? Based on what you have said before and now, the answer to this question is no. How many of Iraqis died during the Iran/Iraq war that resulted in a stalemate, meaning the battle lines where the same at the end of the conflict. How many of Sadam Hussains citizens have been silenced by his secret police. How many Kurdish sons and daughters died as a result of chemical agents that the madman Sadam Hussain had his thugs unleash on them. The big question here is how many Iraqis secretly want Sadam gone but say nothing because of fear???? Again you have engaged mouth before putting brain into gear.

[smokegenerator]

Banat- relax with your subtle vulgarity rhetoric, you do not win friends, allies nor sympathetic ears while engaged in that tone.

[smokegenerator]

sorry, Air Force truly is not a a pure military, take away the air wing and you have a bunch of secretaries with white gloves waving people in at the gate.

Red Two...:)

[Banat]

Ne budali...

[Kate22]

Well said!

[bok]

This is Wag the dog while the mexican and canadian borders go unguarded. Thousands of miles of unguarded border it makes me ill, homeland un-secuity is a JOKE.

[Banat]

:-)

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Another factor nobody ever mentions is that there are 2,000,000 Christians in Iraq (I think mostly Chaldeans), and are NOT being massacred or expelled. I read that the oldest continuously-functioning Christian church building in the world is in Baghdad (and was hit by a bomb back during Desert Storm).

By contrast, the supposedly "secular" "ally" Turkey has killed or expelled virtually all Christians since 1915, so that the 4,000,000 who lived there a century ago (Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians) are all gone. And that was AFTER the Turks had been oppressing the Christians of the Balkans and Middle East for many centuries.

In both cases, there is a Muslim majority, so one can not be accused of religious bigotry in pointing out these obvious differences.