To: f.simons who wrote (133074 ) 2/19/2001 5:46:40 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to The Israelis and the Americans agreed a long time ago that Israel simply cannot be involved in military actions like this. That is why Israel didn't even counter-attack when Saddam was raining missiles down on them during the Gulf war. What about the Australians? Where were the Canadians? American and British pilots and planes are the ones being threatened by Saddam's radar installations. You can argue that we shouldn't have forces there at this point, but not that they don't have a right to defend themselves once there. I don't have a clue who Harry is. If he posted something, I came on the thread after his post. In any event, I am not upset muchless blindly patriotic. You haven't read many of my political posts to even suggest such a thing. I don't particularly like Bush, and certainly did not vote for him. I am not even sure I agree with the strikes that were made. However, to suggest that the failure of other "allies" to participate proves that the strikes were ill-advised, which was your original point, is simply inaccurate, IMO.
