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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (122165)12/26/2003 7:25:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Germany did not become the world's strongest scientific and industrial power in three years under Hitler -- the capability was already there

So f--king what, GST? If the argument we were making was that Saddam Hussein was about to conquer America, you would have a point in saying that Iraq never had the underlying industrial, military or scientific power to become a superpower or to present a conventional military threat against the US.

But we never said that. We said that Iraq had the strongest industrial, military and scientific power in the Arab world, sufficient to conquer Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and thus control 2/3rds of the world's proven oil reserves. And to wage assymetrical warfare - which does not require superpower status - against the USA via proxy agents.

So it is your argument that is irrelevant.
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