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What is to keep them from having placed charges on each well head in the past 10 years that would be detonated by cell phone?

Absolutely nothing,and it is going to be a enormous environmental disaster that the world press and the US left will blame on Bubba-2 and America. And not without some small bit of truth,either. While it is true that Bubba-2,the US,nor anybody else forced Hussein to do this,it is also true he wouldn't have blown up his own oil fields unless Iraq was attacked. The Arab press and the environmentalists will take this ball and run with it as hard as they can run,believing the whole time that they are right and spreading the truth.

The fact is that most people (non-Bush-Bot partisan Republicans) realize that this is a unneccessary war that is being fought for political purposes. Iraq is no threat to the US or England,but they ARE a serious threat to their Arab neighbors and Israel. I say let Saudi Arabia and Israel go to war with Iraq if they want to see Hussein taken out. Why should US military members die and be maimed for life to protect Saudi and Israeli citizens? ESPECIALLY since it is Saudi Arabia herself who is the biggest supporter of the terrorists who attacked us on 9-11. Then again,there are too many elite US families involved in politics from both parties that have profitable business arrangements with the Saudi's that would be disrupted,and none of them will suffer any money losses if we attack Iraq.

Then again,there are too many elite US families involved in politics from both parties that have profitable business arrangements with the Saudi's that would be disrupted,and none of them will suffer any money losses if we attack Iraq.

In fact,a war with Iraq where oil wells are destroyed will even cause these people to profit,as the Saudi's and others will then charge more for their oil because the supply has been reduced.

The fact is that most people (non-Bush-Bot partisan Republicans) realize that this is a unneccessary war that is being fought for political purposes. Iraq is no threat to the US or England,but they ARE a serious threat to their Arab neighbors and Israel. I say let Saudi Arabia and Israel go to war with Iraq if they want to see Hussein taken out. Why should US military members die and be maimed for life to protect Saudi and Israeli citizens? ESPECIALLY since it is Saudi Arabia herself who is the biggest supporter of the terrorists who attacked us on 9-11. Then again,there are too many elite US families involved in politics from both parties that have profitable business arrangements with the Saudi's that would be disrupted,and none of them will suffer any money losses if we attack Iraq.

The twin sirens of appeasement and isolationism.

Of course Iraq is no direct military threat to us. They are a threat to us indirectly, through outfits like Al Qaeda.

And don't sit there and tell me that AQ and Saddam don't have relations: they do. In the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

You want to leave Saddam alone, not because you don't believe that the world would be a better place without Saddam, but because you despise Bush so much. But leaving Saddam alone allows Saddam to eventually develop nuclear weapons. Yes, he could use these against the Israelis. Strictly speaking, that's none of our business. What is our business is that several hundred thousand citizens of a close ally of the United States would be snuffed out in an instant. That doesn't matter to you. It matters to me.

And what's more, the game Saddam could play is simple. Get a bomb, and use Al Qaeda as cutouts to plant one in an American city. Then claim deniability. That is what this entire campaign is all about. The President intimated as much in his State of the Union speech of last year.

You want to take risks with American lives that I am not willing to take. As long as we remain on the offensive, the enemy remains unable to pull a stunt like this off. If we let him live and build his weapons, we lose this war. Period.

Be Seeing You,

Chris