If you are not a Rat Plant I suggest you take each question and do a FR search and take about 2 hours reading up on each question.
PS: I started to answer your questions but realized they were bogus when you asked:
What happens if Pakistan goes rouge and has nukes?
The first 7 questions are assumptions on your part and not worthy of an answer. The rest are "What if's" and have a bias towards the negative.
The past 50 years have seen the fall of almost all the oppressive regimes and the remaining tyrants will soon fall. All we are seeing and hearing is the cries of these tyrants as they assume their rightful places in the ash heap of history.
I'm not sure where your from Stavka, But we Americans believe in Freedom and we will fight for it and we have fought and shed more blood for the freedom of people we have never met, Then we have for ourselves. Americans are not a part of a nationality, We are part of a dream and a belief in freedom.
Freedom is like a fever,
Catch it
***MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Special Report No.12: "PRELIMINARY OVERVIEW - SAUDI ARABIA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM: CURRICULUM, SPREADING SAUDI EDUCATION TO THE WORLD AND THE OFFICIAL SAUDI POSITION ON EDUCATION POLICY" by Steven Stalinsky (SPECIAL REPORT SNIPPET: "Introduction [I] For the past two decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been engaged in an extensive effort "to spread Islam to every corner of the earth." [1] This has meant supporting or creating schools with a curriculum primarily based upon the teachings of Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, the 18th century founder of the Islamist Wahhabiyya movement. [2] This report offers a preliminary overview of the Saudi education system focusing on its main principles, aspects of its organizational structure, translations from its textbooks and statements made by high ranking Saudi officials on the Saudi education policy.") (122002)
HAARETZ DAILY.com: "REPORT: SADDAM PLANNED TO USE BIOLOGICAL WEAPON AGAINST ISRAEL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The document says that Iraq sent three MiG-21 planes to bomb Israeli targets with regular bombs to check whether they were able to penetrate the Israeli air defense system. At the second stage, three more MiGs armed with conventional weaponry were to be sent to Israel as a diversion, together with a Sukhoi airplane armed with biological weapons. But the operation failed during the first stage, when the three MiGs were downed over the Persian Gulf a short time after takeoff.") (122302)
SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: "12 LINKED TO IRAQ MONEY-LAUNDERING PLAN" (121902)
***ISLAM-ONLINE.net: "MULLAH OMAR URGES JIHAD AGAINST U.S. WAR ON IRAQ" by Hasbanullah Mutawakel, IOL Correspondent (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Peshawar, December 18 (IslamOnline) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar exhorted Muslims on Tuesday, December 17, to prepare for Jihad against the United States if it unleashes a military offensive against Iraq. In a statement published in the Pakistani Mashraq newspaper, Mullah Omar stressed it was time for the Islamic nation to stand in the face of world atheism and to attack American interests worldwide.") (121802)
***Quote.BLOOMBERG.com News: "UN ENLARGES IRAQ TEAM; AZIZ WARNS OF TERROR THREAT (Update 4)" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Any U.S. move against Iraq to rid the country of weapons will mean the "hatred against the United States will reach its peak," Aziz said on the U.S.'s "Fox News Sunday" program. It would prompt attacks against U.S. citizens at home and abroad, he said, without specifying who might carry out the strikes.")(121602)
ISLAM-ONLINE.net - News: Cairo. "AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PROTESTS U.S. WAR ON IRAQ" (ARTICLE SNIPET: "AUC professors who have formed "Faculty4Pal" helped organize the protest and plan to invite next year a children's theater group from Aida refugee camp near the Palestinian West Bank town of Bethlehem, Mehrez said. Around 5, 000 Egyptian and foreign students attend AUC, which was founded in 1919 by American scholars and is incorporated in the U.S. State of Delaware, where it is licensed to confer degrees. Although an American institution, AUC's students staged several anti-U.S. rallies...") (121802)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "SYRIANS 'SMUGGLING ARMS TO BAGHDAD'" by Con Coughlin (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Western intelligence officials have discovered that at least 52 crates containing new air-defence systems and spare parts have been smuggled into Iraq from Syria since the start of December. The Russian-made equipment, which has been purchased through a Belorussian middleman, was taken into Iraq through al-Walid border crossing earlier this month.") (121502)
ALBAWABA.com: "REPORT: SYRIA BOOSTS DEFENSES ALONG BORDER WITH ISRAEL; ASSAD: HAMAS, ISLAMIC JIHAD REPRESENTS MILLIONS OF PALESTINIANS" (121302)
DefenseLINK.mil - AMERICAN FORCES INFORMATION SERVICE: "IRAQ BIO WEAPONS PROGRAM LARGER THREAT THAN IN 1991" by Kathleen T. Rhem, American Forces Press Service (121602)
WHITE HOUSE.gov: "SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IRAQ: A DECADE OF DEFIANCE AND DECEPTION"
IRAQ WATCH.org
GLOBAL SECURITY.org: "PUBLIC EYE PICTURE OF THE WEEK - 2002"
FREE CONGRESS.org - THE FREE CONGRESS FOUNDATION - Notable News: "ONE WHO DARES CALL IT 'TREASON'" -Commentary by Paul M. Weyrich (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "So how does Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) justify holding a reception for the Mujahedin-e Kalq? The U.S. State Department, since 1994, has listed this group as one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the world. The State Department says that this Marxist-Muslim group has killed many Americans and had blown up a number of U.S. facilities in Iran. This group participated in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. This group had a falling out with the Ayatollah Khomeni, according to The Washington Times, so the group fled to Iraq and now is funded by Saddam Hussein. The group helped Hussein fight the Kurds in the North of Iraq when chemical weapons were used.") (112502)
GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ"
GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KHALIQ"
GOOGLE Search Term: "MUJAHEDIN-E KALQ"
FREEREPUBLIC.com - Discussion Threads - Search Term: "IRAN AND IRAQ"
***NATIONAL POST.com: "AL QAEDA PLANNING URANIUM BOMB: UN" by Steven Edwards (121102)
***MSNBC.com: "REPORT: AL QAEDA DEAL FOR NERVE GAS U.S. Suspects Nerve Agent VX Was Smuggled Through Turkey" (121202)
“Why hasn't Congress done it's job on the war?”
The only question really worthy of an answer. The “what ifs” have no pat answer.
As to the above, Congress hasn’t done its Constitutional duty on any of our wars since 1941. They would rather shirk the responsibility so each party can lay the blame for the results on the other. They have determined that “resolutions” are good enough, no one wants to actually declare war anymore. With a resolution the buck can be passed upstairs.
Do I state the answer in square feet or gallons or what? I'm stuck.
Hope you and yours are having a great Christmas and that all is well. JVb
I do not understand what you mean by publically debated, but it seems to me that it has been the topic of conversation where I am, and it has certainly been in the news, and it seems to me congress gave President the go ahead to do something, so just where do you want this debate to take place, and between whom?
As far as your question on cost goes, just when in the history of the world, let alone the United States any government has been able to determine the cost of a military action.
Your question, if I had never read any of your other post and I have, gives away your point of view. You disagree with the pending action. Ok.
As someone else pointed out, many of your questions have been asked and answered, even if you do not agree with the answers (and I am not going to do your work for you, look up the answers yourself). Also, once again, we have a republic form of government, that is we elect people to represent us and to make decisions. If we do not like what they do, we have two choices, wait until the next election to vote them out of office or to impeach them.
As this administration continues to have a high approval rate from the citizens, it would appear we are overall happy with the decisions being made.
Lots of luck in getting your questions answered.
I feel your pain. #;o)
Why hasn't Congress done it's job on the war?
Once you start with two strawmen arguments in a row, you lost me for whatever else you may have written.
Congress Passes Iraq Use of Force Resolution
Joint Resolution 114 was debated and passed by the House by a vote of 296-133. Joint Resolution 114 was debated and passed by the Senate by a vote of 77-23.
Congress has debated the issue and passed an authorization of force. Citizens have debated the issue from coast to coast, for and against, in every venue from editorial pages to demonstrations and everybody from the Chinese to the French has debated the issue in the U.N.
Most wars start in relatively short order. This war has been debated ad nauseum to the point that each side has had the opportunity to memorize every argument the opposing side has.
If this does not meet your own personal criteria of a "public debate" or "Congress doing it's job", what does?
Did you expect the U.S. Congress to debate and vote on Joint Resolution 114 in your own living room while you personally chaired the debate and counted the votes?
The lips of the wise feed many, but fools die for want of understanding.
Not as much as the French and Russian's will receive, truth is there is not much BUZZ in the oil patch about it.