Posted on 02/21/2003 3:05:12 PM PST by dware
By all means - use it - thats what I made it for.
Save Billions of lives
Stop Saddam now!
Look at the headlines. The only people calling it war are the leftists protecting Saddam Hussein.
I just checked the last 50 FR headlines with the word "Iraq" in them.
Nine of the fifty also had the word "war" in the headline; Forty-one did not!
This thread is one of the nine.
The people that are intentionally linking the word "war" to "Iraq" are ... socialist leftists ... the anti-war crowd that can, and will, destroy morale in our front line forces.
THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHEREBY MIDDLE EASTERN-ISLAMIC TERROR CAN BE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DEFEATED THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ELIMINATION OF SADDAM HUSSEIN.
The enemies of the US are coming to the realization that hitting them again will have real costs, and that their original goal of bringing the country to its knees by disrupting its economy may not be realistic.Im my opinion, that realization alone explains the lack of any significant terror event since 9-11.
But there must be further consequences to insure the safety of the people of America.
The Iraqi military must first be bludgeoned into submission, and this time Hussein must be killed or otherwise brought to justice for his crimes. The US must realize that the subsequent occupation of Iraq will have a tremendous psychological, political, and strategic impact on terror itself, because of the consequences to the entire population of the region, not just those who would use terror.
When Iraq falls, the region will wake up to a new neighbor, one who having come out of fear and in self defense, will therefore not shrink from the job of constable.
When Iraq falls, the billions being spent by US taxpayers to secure a base in Saudi will no longer be required, as the US will have one in Iraq. The coddling and groveling before the Saudi princes can also cease. In the blink of an eye, the entire Middle East power dynamic will have been realigned, decidedly in favor of the Great Satan.
When Iraq falls, ten percent of the world's oil will come under the control of the US. Without seizing any proceeds or confiscating anything that rightfully belongs to the Iraqi people, the simple act of keeping the spigots open and removing the sanctions that were placed on this oil will change irrevocably the world's petroleum power structure. OPEC, already hobbled by Russia's increasing production and refusal to play ball, will be completely incapacitated by the uninhibited flow of oil from Iraq, and there will be a building for sale in Vienna.
There will be a precipitous drop in the price of crude for sure, but more importantly a degree of predictability unseen since the sixties will return to the oil business, an underrated factor when assessing the damage OPEC has done to world commerce. The engine of the American economy will then become fuel injected, quite possibly turbo-charged, as its oil dependent ecomony has suffered most from the shenanigans of the OPEC cartel, and therefore stands to gain disproportionately, a fitting consequence certainly not forseen by the Arab-Islamic terror community.
In the minds of our adversaries, the fall of Iraq will precipitate all of the conditions needed to quash even the consideration of using terror against us; an unemcumbered military presence in the region, the realization that further terror against us has pain and humiliation as its reward, and the respect that always accompanies the removal of appeasement from diplomacy.
The Arab street, whose celebrations were meant to send a message of encouragement to the terror masters, will soon be sending a request for restraint, a reversal which could only be explained by the presence of new neighbor in their midst, possessed of a different resolve, thereby catalyzing the one emotion on their part which could stop all the madness; the FEAR that they might be next.
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