AL Re..Hmaly, back to where this came from. You used the fact that your sons fly occasionally to support a war on Iraq (incredible).
Fair enough with me. I got enough play out of your assertion. My assertion that getting rid of Saddam would make flying safer is based upon the fact that Saddam has for yrs supported anti Israel terrorist groups who have made destroying airplanes a prime part of their terror campaigns. Speaking of which hot off the press today.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/06/1041566358544.html
Britain links Iraq with world terrorism
January 7 2003
By Anton La Guardia,
London
Britain is expected to embrace America's "axis of evil" philosophy when Foreign Secretary Jack Straw makes a direct link for the first time between Iraq and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.
The government has shied away from supporting US President George Bush's view that Iraq, Iran and North Korea form an "axis of evil" because their rulers pursue Doomsday weapons and support terrorist groups.
British ministers have so far regarded global terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction as separate issues, and have laid greater emphasis on stopping the collapse of "failed states" over confronting "rogue states".
Mr Straw is due to address an unprecedented gathering of 150 British ambassadors summoned back to London to debate the new priorities of British foreign policy. He was expected to make it clear that the British Government had changed its views.
Despite determined efforts by the US administration since September 11, the CIA and other intelligence services have failed to find any connection between al Qaeda or any other terrorist group and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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But Mr Straw will say that terrorist groups could in future secure biological, chemical or nuclear weapons from rogue states.
"The most likely sources of technology and know-how for such terrorist organisations are rogue regimes that continue to flout their obligations under international law not to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons," Mr Straw will say.
"This is why terrorism and rogue regimes are part of the same picture. Our immediate aim must be to disrupt and eliminate terrorist groups which might attempt to acquire WMD (weapons of mass destruction). But we will also have to deter and remove the threat posed by hostile or unstable states which possess or are pursuing WMD.
"Today, the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons presents the greatest threat to our national security, and to the peace of the world," he will say.
"September 11 showed that the terrorist organisation al Qaeda would stop at nothing to inflict mass slaughter. If they were to manage to acquire weapons of mass destruction, I am certain they would use them.
"The most likely sources of technology and know-how for such terrorist organisations are rogue regimes." Mr Straw's comments mean that Britain is now much closer to sharing America's analysis of the main threat to Western security.
However, he does not name any countries likely to give terrorists unconventional weapons and clear differences remain over how to neutralise the dangers. The US last week talked up the prospect of war in Iraq in the coming months, with President George Bush saying it was clear that Iraq was treating the United Nations with contempt.
But senior British Government ministers were deliberately playing down the likelihood of conflict, saying there was now a 60:40 chance of avoiding war.
The government was also playing down the significance of the first full report by weapons inspectors to the UN Security Council on January 27 in triggering a war. A government spokesman said it was likely that UN inspectors would be given more time to continue their search for banned weapons.
In his speech, Mr Straw appears to suggest that the campaign against al Qaeda should take precedence over any war against Iraq.
- Telegraph, Guardian
The point has been lost, which is that Bush can and should solve the Iraq matter diplomatically,
After ten yrs and over 5000 dead,here and in Israel, you feel we can just put our differences aside and cave into a brutal dictator. Why would we want to, and put future generations at risk. No the terrorists have played their game long enough, and on 9/11 stepped way over the line. Time to stop this nonsense and get rid of terrorism and their supporters.
So your point is that if we can't solve the real problem, a substitute will do?
Now where did I say that. I said we can resolve the problems in Iraq, turn it into a democracy, and let democracy do its magic. OBL has made it clear negotiations are not an option . Additionally, to destroy Al Qaeda, you must take away the support AL gets from states which have supported terrorism. Take away his sanctuaries, and he becomes vulnerable. |
