[Chi-townChief]

"I believe it is now safe to say that President Bush made up his mind a long time ago about attacking Iraq."

And I believe it is now safe to say that this pinche cochino Mr. Andrade would hate President Bush regardless of what action he takes

[goodnesswins]

HEY, Juan, may I call you Juan? HERE IS the only PUBLIC OPINION that matters.....those for FREEDOM!!!

WHO has joined the ALLIES FOR LIBERTY & FREEDOM?

THESE ARE the 19 ALLIES for IRAQI FREEDOM

U.S., Britian, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Polish, Italy, Portugal,

Slovakia, Denmark, Czech, Spain, Quatar, Jordan, Albania, Kuwait, Israeli, Australia and Japan

FREE the IRAQI people!!!

	UK	JAPAN
AUSTRALIA	BULGARIA	What OTHER country wants the IRAQI citizens FREEDOM?
ROMANIA	ISRAEL	POLAND
SPAIN	CZECH	PORTUGAL
KUWAIT	HUNGARY	QATAR
ITALY	ALBANIA	JORDAN
DENMARK	SLOVAKIA

[anniegetyourgun]

Get real, Juan....before you actually have an intelligent thought.

[Congressman Billybob]

The writer of this screed has a blistering ignorance about the history of totalitarian dictators with the capacity and the taste for mass murder. His ignorance is of a piece with the "1,000 historians against war in Iraq" who were thoroughly discussed in a prior thread on FR.

For a discussion of this kind of historical ignorance and political bias, see my latest on UPI, which was just posted on FR. (And, major thanks to FReepers for the thread here which inspired that article.)

Congressman Billybob Click here for "Historians against History (HAH!)

[marron]

Bush has been clear from the beginning. He was going to take Saddam down.

Bush's supporters expect this of him. We don't want to simply react after the fact as our enemies take their shots and then disappear into the crowd. We expect to take the fight to our enemies. If they are coming for us tomorrow, we are going to meet them today, now, on our terms and at a place of our choosing.

But Saddam could have confounded us at any time. He could have simply surrendered. He could have simply opened his bases to a delegation of US military, he could have established a joint US/Iraq military commission to arrange the disposal of his weapons. He could have simply handed them over. Then there would be no invasion. There would be no occupation. Saddam would remain in power. The sanctions would be dropped.

But that isn't what happened. He did not disarm. Our supposed allies are selling him what he needs to break out of containment, which means that containment is doomed to fail.

So rather than wait passively while he confounds us with the help of countries who were once our allies, but who are now his allies, we will act. We will not withdraw and leave him to continue his rampage, we will confront him and finish him. And then we will move on to the next item of our "things to do" list.

This is what we expect of Bush, or any other so-called leader, and if we are supportive of him it is because he is doing what we expect him to do.

[FITZ]

Where was this guy's outrage when Clinton attacked Iraq just to keep Monica's testimony off the front pages?

[FITZ]

I doubt Mr Andrade complained about Clinton bombing the Christian Serbs or bombing the Somalis....or taking over Haiti.

[SuziQ]

Get real, Mr. President, before you become a bigger threat to world peace and stability than Saddam Hussein.

What is most amazing is this writer's seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of Pres. Bush's inmost thoughts! Gosh, aren't we fortunate to have such a skilled person writing for one our major newspapers?