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To: hmaly who wrote (159841)	2/2/2003 4:52:45 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1584176

So how long does Saudi Arabia have to comply? Considering we arm them and our president's family is in bed with them? See, you cant use the Palestinian reason to go after Saddam or the saudi comparison comes up. Saddam has to threaten the US. Directly. And potshots at our planes aren't a valid reason either. We bomb Iraq all the time in retaliation for that. I'm talking about a full-scale invasion of Baghdad. What solid evidence do we have to justify that? This is about the public opinion of the world, not so much my opinion. I would tend to back Bush more if he hadn't used the war as a crass was to win the mid-term elections. To me, he has a 50% reason to go after Iraq. Not enogh for a war but enough to press him hard. The rest of his reasoning is probably their oil. Why else? This is going to be a very expensive war. You just saw our deficit projections. Come on, what else makes it worth it? Saddam is not likely to attack us directly. Not while he's in the box he's in anyway. I see Saddam as a major pest rather than a major menace, except to his own people. But since when have we given a rat's a** about the Iraqi people? That said, if the full UN would come along with us I'm all for an invasion where responsibilities and costs are shared. And let Kuwait and the Saudis help pay for it too. Or admit we're going to grasb Iraqi oil to pay not just us but the UN for the war costs. And that we'll even give some of the proceeds to fund a new Palestinian state. Take the oil but be fair about it and share it. But our oil companies will get 40% off the top of course. Also we need to find a leader to replace Saddam. So far we have no one. That's a bigger problem than you can imagine. If we occupy Iraq for years the arab street's worst fears about us will come true and Bin Lauden will be the hero again.