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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (167369)	4/10/2003 6:44:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1580645

Ted, <This is the all powerful army that you are so proud of the US Army defeating?> One thing I am proud of is the fact that a liberal prediction turned out to be untrue. Saddam and his "Information Minister" projected an image of being tough, and liberals did nothing to try and dispel that image. Its really quite amazing to me how the right twists things. Either they're complaining that liberals worried to much about Saddam's well being or the inverse, we were afraid Saddam would be too tough. Well, let me explain to you this liberal's position re the war. I didn't want to go to war for three reasons: 1. The fukking cost......wars are expensive. 2. I felt the weapons inspectors were doing their job if only Bush would have shutup for two seconds. 3. I didn't like setting the precedent of a pre emptive strike on another nation. Violating a nation's sovereignty can have untold repercussions. Strangely enough, that's a concern very dear to the Right when it comes to our sovereignty but apparently it ends there.......there is no concern re another nation's. Having said all that, I never for one moment thought we could not defeat Saddam although I was concerned that urban warfare could drag out the finish and it still may. I also take no pride in defeating Saddam because the truth is Iraq's/Saddam's salad days are long gone, and we are dealing with a well armed, third world nation. ted