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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (8428)	4/6/2003 11:41:54 AM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

<< If you were to poll everyone on this thread, I'm pretty sure you'd get a 100 percent opinion that everyone would want Saddam removed from power. >> Poll them. << Where we differ is on the means of how this is being accomplished. Why can't so many of you on the pro-war side of this debate realize this Where we differ is on the means of how this is being accomplished. Why can't so many of you on the pro-war side of this debate realize this very important fact. >> How would you have gotten Saddam out of power? How long would "your means" take to remove the Saddam regime from power? Perhaps I will understand "your very important fact", when you put it in writing.

To: PartyTime who wrote (8428)	4/6/2003 11:50:11 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21614

If you were to poll everyone on this thread 1.) Do you think Saddam Hussein should be removed from power? 2.) Do you think the current means are the correct means? 3.) Do you think the current means will cost more than the ends are worth in terms of: a.) US safety? b.) US leadership ability? c.) US economic stability? 4.) Do you think greater diplomatic efforts to gain support from Arab nations in the region would have been beneficial in an effort to remove saddam? 5.) Do you think greater diplomatic efforts to gain support from other nations around the world would have been beneficial in an effort to remove saddam? 6.) Do you believe a comprehensive strategy toward 4 & 5 was properly pursued? 7.) Do you think Iraq posed a direct and immediate threat to the USA or its allies? 8.) Do you think there is credible evidence that Iraq was preparing to launch an attack or invasion of some kind on the USA, its allies or any of Iraq's neighbors? 1 yes. 2 no. 3 a yes. b. yes. c. yes. 4 yes. 5 yes. 6 no. 7 no. 8 no.