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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (692)	9/12/2001 4:50:21 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

>The moral of the article as I read it seems to be we should have ruthlessly eliminated Hussein in the first place so that a continued embargo was not necessary. It's easy to say now in hindsight about that decision. At the time, doing what you said would: have a lot more US casualties finding a comparable strong leader to keep the Iraqis together before the Iranians made toast out of all of them and got a hold of the oil supplies you got a whole bunch of Kurds in the north endlessly fighting each other you got a whole bunch of Shiite Muslims in the south in their own agendas you got the allies Saudis and Kuwaitis with their own agendas you don't mean occupying Iraq, do you? [I hope not] Evil Sadam [remember he was an ally before, another friend turned Satan]invaded, he was kicked out of Kuwait, oil supplies back to being safe for American corporations to ensure endless supply of Prostitution campaigns to the Republican (mostly) coffers (or war chests if you prefer) and he is still there to provide a counter weight to the Iranians, provide a pretext for American pilots to do practice bombing raids on live targets for eleven years and provide forces on the ground to control any situation (nothing better than establishing facts on the ground and ask questions later, ask Sharon)

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (692)	9/12/2001 5:09:45 PM
From: Raymond Clutts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Agreed and by adapting that morale to the current circumstances we may see that it now becomes necessary to mete out a disproportionate revenge to those that purposefully murdered our fellow citizens in order to dissuade others that might be tempted to do so again in the future. Which is shorthand for the Airborne motto, "Kill them all and let God sort it out." That phrase is reminiscent of "an eye for an eye" and it represents the Old Testament morality that didn't hesitate to punish evildoers. Churchill demonstrated a keen appreciation for the psychological perspective of these Arab states that are supporting terrorists when he said(speaking of the Germans), "They are either at your feet or at your throat." I know that I'd rather have them supine than upright and before we're done that's what we'll have.