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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (366321)	3/4/2003 9:08:53 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush went to Kuwait's defense only to establish a foothold in the area. Furthermore, the real reason that Saddam was not deposed 12 years ago is that that would have given the Kuwaitis and Saudis reason to tell the the Americans to go home. Keeping Saddam in place allowed keeping the bases in place. Rumsfeld and the Project for a New American Century thing there are too many restrictions on those bases, so they now want an entire country to do with as they please (which is the same reason Bin Laden went to Afganistan). TP

To: George Coyne who wrote (366321)	3/4/2003 9:58:53 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 769670

What about his troop buildup on Kuwait's border? Do you think he just invaded without any preparations and troop movements? That is the biggest smoking gun that points to the fact that our military command and the Bush administration must have known an invasion was imminent. If they didn't know what Saddam was up to, what they hell were they doing (like what the hell were they doing on 9/11/01 to defend our country from attack?)? Our satelites must have picked up his troop buildup near the border of Kuwait. As if the U.S. didn't have military satelites trained on Saddam's troop movements? We gave him satelite info during the Iraq/Iran war in the mid 1980s regarding Iran's troop movements. You don't think we detected his troop buildup along the border of Kuwait before his Aug 2nd, 1990 invasion? I do. How could we not have? Especially considering the fact that Iraq had done the same in the early 1960s and were prevented from invading Kuwait by the British sending troops to Kuwait. The U.S. has had a policy of trying to secure the Persian by military means since at least 1979 when Jimmy Carter declared the Persian Gulf part of our national interest. Letting Saddam invade Kuwait was the perfect vehicle for the U.S. to gain a military foothold in the region with permenant bases.