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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (3537)	1/30/2003 8:31:13 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 8683

<< It follows that a U.S. effort to oust Saddam Hussein and replace his regime with another secular government – this one kept in place by American military power – will not diminish the wrath of Islamic extremists, but rather fuel it. >> Yeah like all the terrorists who came out after we bombed libya. Contrary to all the predictions from the US left, those cockroaches went into fearful dormancy for years after they saw the US was willing to strike back at the raw, savage butchering of innocent americans. That is because they are cowards.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (3537)	1/31/2003 4:43:54 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

As Brian Cloughley points out, our satellites tell us what is going on on the ground day and night. If Iraq has been moving weapons around, why has not the UN discovered them on our directions? The story does not add up. We will have to rely on amnesia having settled in and the constant flooding of our media networks to move this charade along. "First of all, many of the top leaders of the current administration, particularly Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, happily embraced Hussein's dictatorship in the 1980s when Iraq was the enemy of our enemy (Iran), and thus considered our de facto friend. Under the so-called "tilt" toward Iraq, the Reagan-Bush administration decided to assist Iraq in its war against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Under Reagan, Iraq was removed from the list of countries that support terrorism, thus permitting the provision of billions of dollars' worth of agricultural credits and other forms of assistance to Hussein. The bearer of this good news was none other than Rumsfeld, who traveled to Baghdad and met with Hussein in December 1983 as a special representative of President Reagan. The Department of Defense, then headed by Dick Cheney, provided Iraq with secret satellite data on Iranian military positions. This information was provided to Saddam even though U.S. leaders were informed by a senior State Department official on Nov. 1, 1983 that the Iraqis were using chemical weapons against the Iranians "almost daily," and could use U.S. satellite data to pinpoint chemical weapons attacks on Iranian positions. Not once did Rumsfeld and Cheney speak out against Iraqi use of these weapons or suggest that the United States discontinue its support of the Hussein dictatorship during this period. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that the current leadership has a principled objection to dictatorial rule in Iraq." Control of Iraq could give the United States de facto control over the Persian Gulf area and two-thirds of the world's oil – an unrivaled prize in the historic human struggle for power and wealth. Let me add...and remove competition for Isra'El's expansionist plans. len