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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6793)	9/20/2001 8:32:09 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The majority of European nations have indicated an unwillingness to support the US in military action as a result of those little incidents in New York and Washington last Tuesday. (The British are an exception to this.) I'd have to make a list up first to respond. What the US is looking for at the moment is Intel and they are getting it. Europe is providing more assistance than you are aware of. We rescued Europe from the Nazis in WWII. Fortunately that's true if no other countries were involved. Russia tied up a few German troops on the Eastern front [Hitler might have learned something from Napolean, but didn't]. I'm pretty sure Britain may have been involved in WWII, but maybe not. You could look through the history of WWII and come up with a number of instances from small to large that would have turned the war the other way. If Britain wasn't a staging area, the Germans could have very well developed nukes before the US did. Without Britain, invading Normandy might have been a bit of a challenge. If Britain hadn't broken the German codes; Churchill allowed Coventry to be bombed rather than risk revealing that German codes were broken. Britain provided the US with intelligence on where the German U-boats were based on those broken codes. The Battle of Midway could have easily gone the other way if we didn't have the broken Japanese ciphers. It was a World War not a US war. Do you have any doubt that if that had happened in Paris or Rome that they would scream to the US for support and help? And that they would get it? Unfortunately, yes. If I listen to conservatives, the single question is: Is it in the interest of the United States? If the answer is yes, we'd help; if the answer is no, then screw 'em. To hell with them. Let them solve their own problems or die. Have GW pass that on. The easy solution is to put together a bunch of neutron bombs, high dose, short half-life, low blast effects and dose Afghanistan into oblivian; 42% of the population is under the age of 15, but what the hell. jttmab