[ppaul]

Do you suppose this guy was raised as a "red diaper doper baby"?

[Fishing-guy]

The author does raise a few good points. Today's voluntary arm forces are stretched too thin as it is, we certainly don't need another Vietnam or reinstate the draft.

We should just assassinate Saddam, then let Iraq split into three countries. At the same time, we should start "diplomatic dialogue" with Iran to keep them in check.

[Common Tator]

This sounds like the argument in WWII that Japan attacked us. There was no reason to get into a war with Hitler until we had conquered Japan.

Hind sight shows that had we done so, Hitler would have had Atomic weapons log before we did.

Had our "Greatest Generation" followed this advice, the people making it today would not be alive to make it.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

If Clinton had followed Bush Senior's plan and continued to support the Kurds, none of this would have been necessary.

[BlessedAmerican]

48 yes 87 no....

[harpo11]

LOL!!! I'm wondering if anyone could find a classic picture to post of a RDDB?

[ppaul]

Yes, but how would you analyse his arguments in light of the Scriptures?

[Bigun]

Can We Finish One War Before Starting Another?

Dear Mr. Henderson:

You seem to have a fine idea there but perhaps you don't realize that taking care of Iraq is just one more battle in the WAR, yes it's the SAME war, on terrorism!

Get it?

[Salvation]

Should the US go to war with Iraq?
Yes
	105 votes (50%)
No
	98 votes (47%)
Undecided
	6 votes (3%)
209 people have voted so far

[traditionalist]

So anyone who fails to uncritically and thoughtlessly agitate for war is a red diaper baby. Boy, I though freepers were smarter than that. Typical, since you fail to address a single of his arguments.

[muir_redwoods]

And we should have finished with Japan before taking on Germany or Italy. Everybody is free to speak their minds but a reasonable inventory of his mind's content should have told this nitwit that he had nothing to say.

[shiva]

Why do people bother voting,"undecided". I see no point in that.Either you do or you don't. If 'for' works out for you, you're a winner. If 'against' goes bad on you, well, you take your licks and go home....it's as simple as that.

[Nick Danger]

The real question that the United Nations, the US Congress, and the American people need to be addressing now is whether we are willing and able, not only to eliminate Saddam Hussein (we surely are), but whether we are prepared to commit the resources necessary to insure that once Saddam Hussein is history, the people of Iraq find their situation actually improved.

Bullsh*t. We are not on a mission to improve the lives of Iraqi citizens. That might happen, but if it does it will be a pleasant accident.

This guy talks like the objective here is to remove Saddam Hussein so we can send in the Department of Health and Human Services to bring those poor, downtrodden Iraqis the same benefits enjoyed by our own citizens in Cabrini Green.

Well, no it's not. If we go in there to take out Saddam, it will be because we have concluded that his policy set includes developing nuclear and biological weapons, and using them on us... either directly or through his friends in terrorist places.

We do not need a plan for turning Iraq into paradise in order to justify defending ourselves from nuclear or biological attack. What rubbish that argument is.

[Howlin]

Bumped and voted.

[Oregon W.oman]

"Can we finish one war before starting another?"

Yes. And the war we should finish is the Gulf War. That is the war which was suspended after Saddam agreed to abide by a series of UN resolutions in exchange for his life and the continuance of his regime.

Since he has not met the terms of even one of those UN resolutions, it is long past time for the Gulf War to resume and BE FINISHED by finally and permanently removing Saddam and all who are loyal to him.

[M Kehoe]

His (Henderson's) premise is false. We haven't started a war yet. So everything else he says is bovine fecal material.

Oh, but we will finish a war.

We are coming.

5.56mm

[AlaninSA]

FREEPed happily -- with a solid, Turn-Baghdad-Into-a-Glass-Parking-Lot YES!

[brat]

YES at 61%. BTTT

[ladyinred]

This war on Iraq isn't really a different war. This war on terrorism is a continuing thing, this is just another front. Saddam is a terrorist, and has a country full of terrorists.