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

To: RON BL who wrote (390792)	4/12/2003 1:01:45 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Saddam was not very dangerous after all. Maybe to a few people in the Middle East, but not to us. Look at his pithy arsenal and chicken army. Hasn't attacked anyone in 12 years and probably wouldn't have again. He was lucky just to control his own country. Would not have ventured outside of it, especially since our air force was everywhere around him. That said, I'm glad to see him gone. However I was never afraid of him. Not for a minute. You were?

To: RON BL who wrote (390792)	4/12/2003 5:54:13 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Saddam is one of the most dangerous and violent men in the world. His wealth is used to support the growth of terrorism and his number one enemy is the USA. That you think he is nothing shows that you are a useful idiot of the socialist communist party.<< Ron - Saddam was weak. He wasn't a real danger to the U.S. He couldn't even mount a credible defense of his own country. His army was poorly equipped, poorly trained and vastly outgunned. Moreover, his air defenses had been systematically battered by weekly bombings since 1991. The man was certainly a menace to his own people, and through his payments to Palestinian terrorists' families he might have been a danger to Israel, but there is really no evidence to support the idea that he was a threat to us. In fact, he never even threatened the U.S. verbally, except to say that if we attacked Iraq we'd be defeated. Clearly, even that was empty bluster. Our government built him up into something to be afraid of, with the willing help of the media. Fear makes for good television. I didn't buy into it before the war, and I don't see any reason to believe it now. - Allen