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Politics : FREE AMERICA
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To: Sully- who wrote (1195)3/31/2006 2:13:29 PM
From: michael97123   of 14758
 
1. Saddam was never connected to al Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11.

I dont think the connection was as strong as portrayed here. Did saddam play with terrorists for what he saw as his advantage--certainly.

2. There was no real threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Threat was less than we believed. I believe he shipped some weapons out and i believe that it should not be taken lightly that at the appropriate time he would have started the wmd program up again.

3. The United Nations and our allies were justifiably opposed on principle to the invasion.

They were scammers and afraid of being caught.

4. A small cabal of neoconservative (and mostly Jewish) intellectuals bullied the administration into a war that served Israel’s interest more than our own.

My view is that neocons are wilsonians in other clothing. The Jewish things is used by both anti semites on the left and the right.

5. Saddam could not be easily deposed, or at least he could not be successfully replaced with a democratic government.

<i. It is obviously hard to get democracy rolling there. I think we are down to the end game on that and i am not sure how it will go.

6. The architects of this war and the subsequent occupation are mostly inept (“dangerously incompetent”) — and are exposed daily as clueless by a professional cadre of disinterested journalists.

I think the war was mismanaged. I yell alot at rummy but i am not sure about the generals either.

7. In realist terms, the benefits to be gained from the war will never justify the costs incurred.

The jury is out on this one.

8. We cannot win.

It all depends on how you define terms like winning and losing. No we can not win in WW2 terms. But if iraq stays federal and out of the control of the bad guys, it will be a good first step.
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