Bush Administration Plan to Invade Iraq Dubious at Best

The American Partisan ^ | August 16, 2002 | David T. Pyne

[Burkeman1]

Yes- this meeting was denied after it first came out- and then re-affirmed. Interesitng. Atta meets with an Iraqi official and they are discussing 9/11? How do we know the Iraqi official is not a traitor to Sadaam and an Islamo fascist like Atta? Surely there are many opponents to Sadaam in his government - but perhpas not the type we like.

To point to this one meeting (if it ever happened) as proof of Iraqi involvement in 9/11 given all the evidence against our own allies is obscene.

[Mark17]

I firmly believe that if the military was in charge of making the decisions to go to war, the US would fight a lot less wars.

Yes, Lydon Johnson really screwed us over,on that we can certainly agree. Ultimately, it is the ground pounder who spills his blood. I am not in a favor of a rush to war witrh Iraq, but I am not convinced we shouldn't either. How much time should we give Saddam? Don't know about that either. Who knows, maybe Israel will take them out first. This is a tough call, but I did not want to do this kind of stuff, so I was USAF. We let the pilots do it.

[jwalsh07]

Iraq doesn't pose a threat to us now. Bush Senior left Sadaam in power becasue he was more afraid of what type of regime would replace him.

Nope, Bush 41 left Saddam in power because the coalition demanded it. They were wrong.

The current coalition is also demanding we leave Saddam until he nukes somebody or lets loose some camelpox in Bigtown, America. IMO, they are wrong again.

[tomkat]

ahh, so this is where the Neville Club is hanging out on a friday night ...

[jwalsh07]

To point to this one meeting (if it ever happened) as proof of Iraqi involvement in 9/11 given all the evidence against our own allies is obscene.

You obviously didn't read it. The meeting was never "denied". The Czechs have maintained from the gitgo that Atta met al Ani in Prague in April of 2001 and all the wishing in the world isn't going to change that fact. al Ani was expelled shortly afterward.

Whats obscene to me is your willingness to simply avoid truth because it conflicts with your opinion of what Bush should do.

Why did Atta fly to Prague, risking discovery of the most horrendous terroist act ever, to meet with al Ani and then return the next day? Give me a rational explanantion for that and you will have done what nobody else has been able to.

[Mark17]

Yep. You wore the Blue, I wore the Green, with unbelievably shined jumpboots, of course. ;-)

Yes, it seems kind of ironic, that now I am wearing the green and those other dudes are wearing the blue, and I am getting paid to watch them.

[demlosers]

See #121

See post #122

[rightwing2]

I just apologize for copying you on a post that I directed at someone else and you call me names. OK. Now, I am starting to think your username was well-chosen.

[Beenliedto]

Heh... no, I just can't say it, you're making yourself too much of an easy target.

Boy, it's really easy to get you defensive, isn't it?

[RedwM]

I hope the troops are up to snuff on their NBC training, I think Saddam has a suprise in store for the first wave. I think he's itching to use the stuff he's been perfecting for the last 10 years. IMO

[jwalsh07]

I hope the troops are up to snuff on their NBC training, I think Saddam has a suprise in store for the first wave. I think he's itching to use the stuff he's been perfecting for the last 10 years. IMO

DO you know why he didn't use it the first time? He was told in no uncertain terms what would happen if he did.

[rightwing2]

Fair enough. Your impressive home page and experience as a Gulf War vet proves me wrong. It doesn't mean I agree with your views on Iraq. I only copied you on that E-mail to make you think about the important points I was trying to get across.

[Dr. Frank fan]

[Heh... no, I just can't say it, you're making yourself too much of an easy target.] Boy, it's really easy to get you defensive, isn't it?

Huh? You do realize that I was inwardly chuckling at the fact that you misspelled the word "idiot", right? Hmm, apparently not. Oh boy.

By the way, thanks for ignoring the substance of my post and failing to respond to it completely; that was your most intelligent contribution to its thread. Best,

[rdb3]

ahh, so this is where the Neville Club...

???

Let you tell it, I guess.

Chamberlain was a pacifist (if that's who you mean). I'm a razor-sharp taloned hawk.

[RedwM]

Yes. But we don't have the support of our "allies" this time and I believe they feel we have no justification to attack him. I think we will be reeling and the rest of the world will say we deserved it, with the exception of Israel, who will suffer greatly. IMO

[jwalsh07]

Yes. But we don't have the support of our "allies" this time and I believe they feel we have no justification to attack him. I think we will be reeling and the rest of the world will say we deserved it, with the exception of Israel, who will suffer greatly. IMO

Israel's opinion is instructive. They know for a fact that they will be the first on the receiving end if we attack and yet they are satunchly in favor of that attack. I heard on the radio today that Mossad has more evidence of Husseins WMD program and the news is not good.

[the_doc]

The title was misspelled. It should have said "Dubyous."

[RedwM]

I believe the Israelis would use nukes on Iraq, where would that lead? In any case I think the rest of the Arab states would stab us in the back if we attacked Iraq. We have a lot of people over there with nowhere to go but up. What is WMD? w? missile defense?

[EternalHope]

You might check out this for a considerably different take on things than on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734544/posts

Jumped out of a perfectly good airplane 79 times? My 7 were mostly 'cause I figured the jumpmaster would throw me out anyway, so I might as well go on my own...