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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (9338)	11/14/2002 5:05:33 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<<...USA vastly underestimates AlQaeda-Secular Arab loyalty..>> Yup...It DOESN'T matter how much we spend on defense or what kind of rhetoric the right wing NeoCons in the Administration use...we are not getting any safer -- in fact I would claim our actions in the last few years have antagonized a lot of our enemies...If we invade Iraq without a broad coalition prepare for Al Qaeda to strike hard...I would doubt that we can defend against much of what they may try to do to our 'soft targets' and economic interests around the world...Look at how much pain was inflicted on 9/11 last year. I sure would not underestimate Bin Laden & Co. -- They are SO MUCH MORE DANGEROUS than Saddam its not even funny...yet, we are obsessed with Iraq and engineering a 'regime change'....it may cost us a lot of credibility, American lives, and over a hundred billion dollars to do what 'our experts in Washington' think we need to do...They may get a good lesson in UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES....stay tuned, the next few months could be interesting.