[palmer]

There are terrorists who would push the button to kill all of us if they had a button. No doubt Saddam would also like to have such a button although I doubt he would push it if it meant instant death for him. The question is whether toppling Saddam makes any difference to a terrorist and I say it will not. If anything they will be heartened at seeing us waste our energy lashing out at a regime that they hate anyway.

[Arpege92]

"The question is whether toppling Saddam makes any difference to a terrorist and I say it will not"


This is where you and I differ.....a war with Iraq is just not about toppling Saddam, it sends a message as well. During the eight years of Clinton when the attacks were steady, he sat back and talked the big talk but never really did anything. The only terrorist attack he dealt with was Timothy Mcveigh who bombed the FBI building in Oaklahoma. That was easy for him, the man was a white American and noone was going to make a stink about prosecuting him.