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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (371353)	3/14/2003 9:20:26 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

>>President Bush has food and medicine waiting as soon as Saddass is gone, but nooooo, the looney left is not so compassionate unless you are talking about their dollar bills, then they get all weepy..<< PL - I guess many liberals, including myself, don't get how dropping ten times as many bombs in the first 72 hours of the conflict as were dropped in 1991 is something a compassionate man would do. War has changed. It used to be that 90% of the casualties of war were soldiers. Now, 90% of the dead and wounded are civilians. The best argument the Administration has presented about why Hussein is a threat to the United States is that we believe he possesses large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that even though he himself doesn't have the capability of striking us with those weapons, he may at some point in the future give them or sell them to some third party who in turn may attack us with them. It is certain, not just possible, that thousands of Iraqi civilians, including women and children, will be killed when we attack. We are balancing a remote possibility against a dead certainty. Iraq is weak. Iraq is contained. There is no emergency here. The President's rush to war is, in a word, wrong. - Allen