168+ Billion spent, thousands of casualties, diversion of military resources AWAY FROM Al Qaeda countries, to find no WMDs and take out a nasty little dictator posing no real threat to the US.
Meanwhile, Bush's "foreign policy" a) engages in UN-style "talk shop" strategy with N Korea (total madman with proven nukes and long range missiles), b) cozies with Pakistan (brutal regime, admitted nuke purveyor to the third world, and host of Al Qaeda), and c) stays friendly with Saudi Arabia (home of Wahabism, birthplace of most 9/11 terrorists, source of Al Qaeda funding).
What the "Operation Iraqi Freedom" cheerleaders on this thread are missing (not because they can't understand but because they simply don't want to), is that this represents a total misdirection of the crucial war on the perpetrators of 9/11. Our money, servicemen, and political and economic pressure should have instead been massively expended on N Korea, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. I'm talking occupation, regime change, and apprehension of terrorists who attacked the US; I'm talking about fighting the REAL enemy. Then bring the UN in to set up democratic elections to liberate the downtrodden of THOSE countries.
So where's Saddam's Iraq in this picture? It's not. It doesn't even place.
John |
