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

To: Dan B. who wrote (455757)	9/9/2003 9:59:04 PM
From: Richard S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

LOL and so was the bankruptcy of MCI, ENRON and all the other companies we lost BILLIONS of DOLLARS on.

To: Dan B. who wrote (455757)	9/9/2003 10:58:49 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I can't argue with your logic (I can't locate your logic), but you will note that Iraq fought two major wars -- one with Iran where we were on Saddam's side and one in Kuwait where we rallied the UN and kicked Saddam's ass out of there. Saddam did not set up a terrorist state -- he set up a state with the kind of conventional military that we are more happy to engage. An army with barracks, and tanks and formations that can be crushed. What we were not prepared for was for Saddam to engage in the kind of guerilla warfare that is now taking place. Selling the invasion on the grounds that terrorists operated freely in Iraq is about as empty a claim as you could possibly make -- persist if you like, but it truly makes you look completely uninformed -- and I mean that in a gentler way than the usual barbs thrown around here. Iraq was not about terror -- it was about conventional military power.