Ted Re...Do I have compassion for Saddam? Where did I say that? Have I ever once said his life should be spared?
You say we don't need to go to war to control Saddam. It is an established fact that the controls we need to control Saddam and his henchmen cost the children of Iraq dearly, to the tune by Iraq's own estimates of 6000/ month. By not condemning Saddam and his henchmen to change, you are condemning the children to death. Which is it that you want to save, the children or Saddam? You want both, when both isn't an option.
In fact, I don't want American soldiers fighting a ridiculous war and losing their lives.
Neither do I. That is why I prefer to take care of Saddam before he gets even more weapons, such as a nuclear bomb; or Saddam trains even more terrorists to use his WMD. The soldiers can handle Saddams current WMD, our civilians don't have the gear or ability to prepare properly for them, so in lives lost, the soldiers would have far fewer than our civilians.
I don't want this country spending billions on a war we can't afford if the job can be done by continuing to contain Saddam the way we have done for the past 12 years.
What a joke that is. The efforts to control Saddam was a big part of the rise to Al Qaeda, or are you disputing Osama's words, when he says he is against the American troops in SA, the sanctions and the fly overs. If another 12 yrs, of sanctions, give rise to another Al Qaeda, which causes another 9/11, the cost will be far more than the cost of the war. In addition, those sanctions make us look like an arrogant bully to the arabs, the very thing you say you want to avoid. Are we better looking like a bully for 2 wks, then a rebuilder of a nation for 12 yrs, or looking like a bully for 12 yrs, with no upside in sight.From Osama's Oct, o1 speech, justifying the WTC attacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,565070,00.html
Text: Bin Laden's statement
Translation supplied by the Associated Press
Sunday October 7, 2001
I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his messenger. There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that.
There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that. What America is tasting now, is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the Islamic world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no one hears and no one heeds.
When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, vanguards of Islam, they destroyed America. I pray to God to elevate their status and bless them. Millions of innocent children are being killed as I speak. They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins and we don't hear condemnation or a fatwa from the rulers.
Tell me, what part didn't you understand, when OBL blames the US for the starving of the children of Iraq. Yet you want to keep infuriating OBL and his ilk for another 12 yrs. Don't you care?
In fact, the right keeps making accusations against anyone who doesn't agree on this war, claiming we are cowards, unpatriotic, uncaring for American lives bla, bla, bla etc. You all work so hard at these accusations......seem to know so little about the enemy you are so eager to fight.....it makes me wonder who you are really are and what your real motives are!
And I am to believe you know so much more than the president, and the CIA and the FBI, that I would take your word over the presidents. It is not my fault you are having problems with those kind of accustions. Show me some credible evidence you know what you are talking about, and I might side with you. Right now I see your hatred making those statements, not facts.
I suspect if wars were determined by the people who are to actually fight them rather than a bunch of old farts sitting around a table, we would be fighting only those wars that are absolutely necessary to preserve our well being. This Iraqi war is not one of them.
Possibly, but you can bet that then there would be no chance of electing civilians to our government. All of the members of our gov., including the services would then be part of the gov. Have military dictatorships been more peaceful than civilian ones; I would say the evidence is no. Bonaparte led his army, George Washington did too. Alexander the Great, Caesar, Attilla the Hun. In fact, throughout history, military men have been the predominant leaders of countries, so your suspicions are suspect, and self serving. |
