Will We Invade Iraq Or Not?

happytobealive

[happytobealive]

I'm surprised by how many people are telling me it's highly unlikely. I figured it was almost a done deal.

[MinorityRepublican]

BOMB IRAQ!

[MinorityRepublican]

[MinorityRepublican]

I'm surprised by how many people are telling me it's highly unlikely. I figured it was almost a done deal.

No doubt. It's a done deal.

End of the debate.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We will. 100's of 1000's of Reservist have been called up for training for almost six months. Weapons are being stockpiled. You can only mass an attack so many times. The attack will be all-out, brutal and decisive. No pin pricks, like in Afganistan, I assure you.

[PoorMuttly]

Will we or not? That's an easy one.

You want the answer? I bet.

Stay tuned.

[billhilly]

" No pin pricks, like in Afganistan, I assure you."

Your assurance, I assure you, will allow the rest of us to forget this issue. Thanks. If things go bad, we'll get back to you for further instructions.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Your assurance, I assure you, will allow the rest of us to forget this issue.

- Glad to help!

[mamelukesabre]

"You can only mass an attack so many times."

Can you elaborate on this statement? I'm not sure I follow your train of thought.

[Fred Mertz]

I don't see it happening in the next 3 or 4 months. After that, all bets are off.

[mamelukesabre]

The real question is: who do we invade next after iraq is taken care of?

[SunStar]

It seems very likely to me.

President Bush has been attacked for months over Iraq, but he's stayed on message.

Democrats, the U.S. Media, the entire International Media, the E.U., the UN, all of our best allies (except for maybe Australia), all have been screaming their heads off as to every reason thinkable why we should not go after Saddam Hussein. Bush has held firm to his administrations standing official policy of Regime Change in Iraq. Retired and current U.S. Military Generals, especially General Myers, have been trying to pursuade Bush against going into Iraq. The New York Times of course harped on the "civilians" in the Bush administration who weren't heeding the Generals' advice.

It's called focus. President Bush is a focussed man. He wants to see the War on Terror actually accomplish the tasks ahead. Everyone is doubting and/or testing Bush's resolve. Time will tell on Iraq, but I believe we will be in there no later than early 2003. (Actually, I've been saying "September or January" for weeks if not months.) I think that when we go in, I believe it will be with a Resolution from Congress, as well as UN approval (tacit or otherwise), and with at least 10 coalition nations.

If we don't go into Iraq, there will be no more victories in the War on Terror. Saddam Hussein MUST GO before any of the other evil regimes will.

But, even Kofi Annan today came out as "disappointed" in Hussein's speech because it has now become obvious to him that Iraq is not serious about adhering the the existing UN resolutions which they agreed to years ago.

It takes time to jump through the 10,000 politically-correct hoops needed.

[MinorityRepublican]

The real question is: who do we invade next after iraq is taken care of?

We will make sure that Iran will fall, then we will go after Saudi Arabia!

[SunStar]

Iran, Lebanon (Hizbulluh), Saudi Arabia, Indonesia

[happytobealive]

My Democratic cousin, who reads the Economist, said we wouldn't invade because the other countries are not on board.

I would have thought that opposition from these girly countries would be a reason to invade. In the last hundred years we're the only ones who have understood power.

[The Great Satan]

No, we will not.

[Fred Mertz]

Why will we not invade?

[happytobealive]

No, we will not.

Why not?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"You can only mass an attack so many times."

- Think of Eisenhower sending all the boats back on June 6 or of the Japanese turning around on December 6th to think about it some more.

There are obvious signs that the US is preparing a huge attack,

- munitions factories running around the clock,
- 100,000's of reservist called up
- base expansions in the gulf

These steps are costly in money and the demands they place on reservists lives and families. I believe that the planners have a tentative date and are massing for the most overwhelming attack possible on that date. They will take whatever aid they can get from the locals but go it alone if they have to. This war is fully joined. To back down now is to fail, the domestic political climate, diplomatic pressures and tactical advantages will all become worse with time. The US was in no position to launch an attack on 12 September. We have been building up for one ever since.

Iraq has been aiding and abetting terror against Americans for at least the last 11 years. This alone is sufficient justification for war.

I am sure that it will come and it will be brutal.

[AM2000]

Probably. Dubya can't back out now.