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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1480)	9/21/2002 3:26:34 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 8683

Been there, done that... game over... GZ

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1480)	9/21/2002 3:47:11 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

The reason for the urgency in Irak is not the nuclear threat. It's the other threats in a part of the world that need some strong hand to handle before those threats spreads even more. Washington has the hand now and the whole world know it. Saddam is not Hitler of course, we all knew it. His generals are no Rommels, nor Guderians. They couldn't even make good poker players, not to mention chess. Look at them when they salute him. You wouldn't even trust them to drive your kids to school! As it happens, Saddam is the easiest fish to catch, he is in the middle of the oil pool and, possibly soon, the beaches of Miami with his thugs. Furthermore the US needs to scare the others "Sharks In The Name Of Allah" around him; an it's not because it happens to help the Republican party, which it does, that taking Saddam out ASAP is a bad proposition. After all, Saddam is Al Capone with a country to hide in and rape at will.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (1480)	9/23/2002 12:13:34 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Financial Review: Perpective -- "Oil - behind the tough talk on Iraq" afr.com The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, had only been speaking to the Congressional committee for a minute or two when his prim schoolmaster's delivery was interrupted by the loud female voice from the back of the room. Rumsfeld was there to persuade the US Congress to support the Bush Administration's march on Baghdad to forcibly disarm Saddam Hussein. "Mr Rumsfeld," called the middle-aged woman from the public gallery, "I think we need weapons inspections, not war. Why are you obstructing the inspections? Is this really about oil?" She and her two companions, after a brief moment of chanting "Inspections, not war!" were quickly led outside by security. Rumsfeld congratulated the US on the precious gift of free speech then proceeded with his testimony. And in the next three and a half hours' of discussion and argumentation with the committee of legislators on Wednesday, that uncomfortable issue, the small word that describes so vast a subject, was not raised again, except tangentially. <Continues online..........>