War on Iraq:Operations Begin Common Cause

efreedomnews.com ^ | 8/24/02 | Jonathan Rhodes

[elfman2]

I'm sure people smarter than us are warning the president how much is too much.

[FloridaGeezer]

I hope you don't misunderstand me. If I had all the money in the world Saddam would be history. If you'll note the direction our national debt is going, the money pot is about empty and there is not a much prospect of refilling it.

[sarasmom]

While I applaud your fiscal concerns, may I suggest there will be none to pay the debt if the despots in the Middle East are allowed to continue to kill us at their leisure.

Between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, I am not sure who goes first.While I would put them at #2 and #3, my opinion is only a wild a$$ed guess. I am trusting my life, and that of my child on Bush,Rumsfield and Powell having a pretty good handle on the strategy and tactics that will lower this country's body count.Both at home and abroad.

The alternative is to trust overt enemy propaganda and various usefull idiots, such as the NYTs.We can work our way out of debt. We can't do so while dead at the hands of our self avowed enemies.

[elfman2]

" the money pot is about empty and there is not a much prospect of refilling it."

I think I understand your concerns, but I think that any money pot in a government has a life span of a sneeze. So perhaps the question is do we go into hundreds of billions of dollars in dept funding a military deterrent to our enemies, or in expanding social programs. Reagan chose the former.

[Go Gordon]

We should not to get involved in Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Iran until we complete our mission in Afghanistan. I hope we learned that from Croatia-Bosnia-Kosovo. If we try to swat all the flies at one time none of them will be killed.

I have to disagree with you. We appear to be in the wrap-up stage of the Afghanistan mission. If we take on Iraq NOW, it will help further disrupt/dismantle terrorists world-wide. I'm not a military guy, but I imaging the assets that are still in Afghanistan, are different assets that will be used to take down Saddam (with the exception of special ops personnel).

We should go after Iraq as soon as our game plan is finalized, and the resourses and assets are in place. The more we wait, the more time Al Quaeda and Sadaam have to get their ducks in a row.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I love the Frenchman in the front row--please note location of index finger--LOL!

[Cobra Scott]

"If we try to swat all the flies at one time none of them will be killed"

That is so funny, that reminds me of a time as a kid when my Grandfather told me to slow down, and stalk the flies slowly, because you would kill more if you took your time instead of swinging the flyswatter around everywhere. We argued about this for awhile (I was all of 4 or 5).

Then my Grandmother came through with a can of Raid and gassed them all in one sweep. Kind of ended it anticlimactically. LOL!

[TraumaDoc]

WOW! Considering this is all public information, what in the world is holding us back?

Take Saddam out sooner- later is too late.