To: Orcastraiter who wrote (445609 ) 8/20/2003 5:50:57 PM From: one_less Read Replies (1) | Respond to ”A world crisis? then wouldn't it have been better to gather a broad coalition of nations to combat the problem rather than unilateral invasion?” ”This kind of policy is inflaming the middle east,…” ”and is giving support to the terrorist's contention that America is an evil empire” ”I'm fully aware of the need for world and national security, and that it does include the need for military action, such as was done in Afghanistan in the pursuit of bin Laden and Al Qaeda. I'm saddened that this important action was derailed to Iraq.” ”…that will swallow whole Islam if not slain today.” ”That bin Laden is still at large, and that Afghanistan is now slipping back into the control of war lords. The Taliban is re-emerging as the job there was half done. ”And now we face an ever mounting task of controlling Iraq in the vacuum left by Saddam. And Saddam is likely one of the people trying to fill that vacuum along with the shiites and the kurds...and the terrorists, now emerging from every middle east country to fight this guerilla war in Iraq. ”The Powell doctrine was shelved. The Rummy plan was followed, and now there seems to be no plan at all.” ”At the very least, the President needs to tell the American people what our goals are in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how he intends to meet those goals. It should include a time frame and a budget.”
