To: fritter
Hey, I said this months ago. It wasn't about WMD it was about us needing a base in the Middle East to base our troops outside of Saudi Arabia. Now we have one -- the Western Iraqi desert. Anyone who thinks we are going to pull out of Iraq anytime in the next 20 years has never played Risk. Or Go. Or any other geopolitical strategy wargame.
2 posted on
05/30/2003 1:14:31 PM PDT by
dark_lord
(The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
To: dark_lord
and I said that W and Abdullah were solving the problems and remaking the area.
4 posted on
05/30/2003 1:16:47 PM PDT by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: dark_lord
It won't be a base with a Little America plunked in the middle of Irak. Rumsfeld is looking to create a far more agile force than we have had in the past. My ideal would be an Araby with an American flyswatter constantly poised to swat any roaches that appear.
27 posted on
05/30/2003 2:05:35 PM PDT by
RobbyS
To: dark_lord
I say we make Iraq our 51st state.
56 posted on
05/30/2003 2:41:59 PM PDT by
Lazamataz
(I've decided to cut back my tagline, one word at a)
To: dark_lord
Is that why they are being moved to Qatar?
To: dark_lord
Hey, I said this months ago. It wasn't about WMD it was about us needing a base in the Middle East to base our troops outside of Saudi Arabia. Now we have oneIn that regard, it's also worth noting we've removed the one of the two viable threats to the monarchy, the other being their wahabbis. The Saudi's don't need our troops anymore.
To: dark_lord
The Indians pretty much said the same thing when US troops were stationed in Pak. The headlines in India were, "US Border moves 6000 miles closer."
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