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To: zonder who wrote (464650)	9/25/2003 9:41:14 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Nor were the 1.75 million, who were starved to death by Saddam in the 90's. re:"Was there no way to further your goals other than killing 6,000 civilian Iraqis (note that they weren't polled! :-) "

To: zonder who wrote (464650)	9/25/2003 11:40:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

Iraqis are happy they are rid of Saddam Did you think he would just resign? Do you remember it was made clear that if he left there would be no war? That he was offered asylum by the Russians? That he decided instead that those Iraqis you cite should die for him in a war he would CLEARLY lose? Nice guy. Do you like him? Did you support him? If not, why do you mourn him? and 2/3 of them feel it is worth the price THEY are paying. As in, inconvenience of checkpoints I think it was pretty d*ned inconvenient to get killed by Saddam's thugs too. The question was whether invading Iraq is worth the price the US is paying* And that's for US to decide, not you. (Taking your "Monaco" claim at face value, which I don't.) It would have been controversial and probably cost lives to stop Hitler in the Rhineland in 1935 or supported the Czechs against him in 1938. Should it have been done? are you now safer, or did the invasion of Iraq make terrorists angrier & more able to recruit to their ranks? Have you counted the number of terrorist attacks on US soil since the Iraq war? Hint: 0. Is the fact that the US is now isolated make it easier or harder to fight against terrorism on a global scale? If we have to depend on allies like the French, we're doomed. Message 19344222 Was there no way to further your goals other than killing 6,000 civilian Iraqis (note that they weren't polled! :-) I understand your heart bleeds. But this was a war. People die in wars. That's what they are about. 6,000, assuming that number is correct, is still a small loss for a war of this magnitude. There were battles in WW1 where 10 times that were lost and not a yard was gained.