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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (697)4/26/2003 11:19:33 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 1112
 
It was quite obvious that waiting a few months would only have had the effect of giving Saddam more time to prepare, of costing us more lives lost in training, of waiting for very hot weather where wearing chemical suits would have been almost unbearable, of the need to cycle troops in and out of the theater becasue you can't have them waiting in the desert endlessly, and there was zero chance that Saddam would change anything that would have obviated the perceived need for the war.

It's fair to question whether the war should have been fought at all.

But if you accept the premise, either because you believe it or for the sake of argument without believing it, that the war was justified, there was no benefit and great cost in waiting.
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