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Posted on 09/29/2002 3:38:56 PM PDT by raysol
Uncle Sam Globalcop rides again.So much for avoiding foreign entanglements.I stand in opposition to the looming war with Iraq for more reasons than I will list here.I dont favor Saddam Hussein at all but neither do I buy Bush's rational for invading Iraq which is still a sovereign country & its NOT our place to dictate to its people who their leaders should be nor are we to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy as the founding fathers put it way back when.
The case hasnt been made to justify or warrant such a perilous course despite Bush's hollow claims & saber rattling which sounds more like a personal vendetta of his than legitimate national security concerns.To me its more likely to finish what his father started or over oil & both Bushes seem to want Saddams head on a platter just to settle old scores.
Going down this ominous path on such dubious grounds will only incite more antiAmerican sentiments & further destabilize an already volatile region especially if Israel(which doesnt see Iraq as an imminent threat)gets involved in it.If having weapons of mass destruction is the Bush standard for such aggressive action then why not go into China,N.Korea etc who do pose a credible & real threat to US?For US to pick on Iraq is like a heavyweight boxer bullying a lightweight.There is NO clear & present danger to US & if there is let Congress declare war as the Constitution mandates as We the People surely DONT need UN approval to defend our nation but Congress should not just rollover & rubber stamp the pending war resolution either.Let them hear from you now.May cooler & more prudent heads prevail to rein in the warmongerers before this comes back to bite & haunt US like 9/11.
I agree. It gave me chills when I heard Bush say that Saddam had tried to "kill my daddy". That is hardly the basis for foreign policy. Unless Bush does something soon about the imminent threat to our security, our open borders, then nothing else is going to matter very much. Bush has an obsession with Saddam that blinds him to every other problem the US faces right now. Our military is already stretched thin, our economy is teetering, the rest of the world is against a war, and conquering Iraq will mean occupying it for years and years. We need to protect our interests closer to home.
But the President then was morally corrupt.
Hell that settles it then. We surrender.
The response should have been one heck of a lot more decisive.
By the way, any of you oh-so-much-more-intelligent-than-the-rest-of-us naysayers want to comment ON THIS???
I guess you think these maggots are patriots, huh?
Don't insult maggots. These guys and some on this thread are what maggots feed on.
I don't have the time to respond to this uselessness anymore.
In other words it's Americas fault that the jihadists have been killing Americans for the past thirty years with impunity.
& further destabilize an already volatile region
LOL, if we destabilize a destablized ME, perhaps it will stabilze, eh?
especially if Israel(which doesnt see Iraq as an imminent threat)gets involved in it.
A blatant lie.
I'm about to make a statement that's far more inflammatory regarding this issue. See you then. Toodles.
As John Gielgud said to Dudley Moore in "Arthur"...I'll alert the media.
Golly gee I just can't wait.
Good, let the blindly partisan volunteer themselves for the ground war. Better yet, let them volunteer their sons. Even better, let's send Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle et. al. through Basic, 11B, Airborne, Ranger School and SFQC (or through Parris Island and Quantico or through Great Lakes, Coronado etc.) and have them lead the charge. (Think Cheney has "other priorities" now)?
Flame away if you must, but if you call me un-American or un-patriotic I will ream your wannabe arse.
You are worse that un-patriotic you are a coward.
Gee, we're all just aquiver with anticipation.....
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