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To: i-node who wrote (153033)	10/10/2002 12:33:49 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583384

I think force may be appropriate under in certain circumstances. Could you be more specific? For example, it is agreed by everyone that Saddam is attempting to purchase components for and construct a nuclear (or nuculer, whatever) weapon. We know this for fact. Should we (1) intervene BEFORE he constructs such a weapon, or (2) intervene AFTER he constructs the weapon, or (3) would this be a circumstance that does not call for intervention at all? Why or why not? I think we should have intervened in the 1980s and stopped American companies from selling him components then. I think we should have arrested him right after he attacked Kuwait and we defeated his forces. I think we should do everything we can to reinstate weapons inspections asap. Your concern with the state of his weapons is bordering on the obsessive. What do you think is going to happen in the next 60 days that warrants this kind of obsession and keeps you from wanting us to explore every non military solution available to us? We go over this shit day in and day out. Why? Thanks to the terrorists and Bush's reaction to their deeds, Americans are in fear, turning on each other left and right......using the term traitor whenever someone disagrees with their viewpoint. Everything we plays right into the hands of al Qaeda. They want us on to take on Saddam. In fact, they are pushing us to put him down..........blowing up a French oil tanker; attacking American soldiers in Kuwait; suggesting other attacks are eminent; suddenly releasing a bin Laden tape threatening even more evil deeds etc. Why do you think that is? Why now? Why go after the French who are working on a diplomatic way to deal with Saddam? Why piss them off when they are encouraging a non violent approach to the Arab world? Don't you get it? al Qaeda wants us to attack Saddam. It will make excellent press. It will prove their case. They will get thousands of new recruits. It will turn many third world nations against us. It will make us look like a bad ass bully in a world of lesser nations! Our attack on Saddam won't engender fear and respect from those lesser nations; on the contrary, it will encourage their disgust and retaliation. Mr. Bush is playing right into their hands........and its scaring the shit out of me. Because once its starts, there will be no turning back. And there will be no rules......al Qaeda doesn't have time for rules. Don't talk to me about war.....don't ask me questions about war...........you know nothing about it except what you see from your living room chair. I listen to the generals.........I listen to people who know first hand what war is.........and they think almost to a man and woman that this is a fool's war. I am tired of this crap. I am sorry you can't get what's coming down. The info is all there, man. You just need to open your mind to it. What's happening to Israel will happen ten fold here. I don't want to see this nation living in constant fear because two old men rue the day that they didn't take out Saddam ten years ago.