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To: TimF who wrote (177524)11/4/2003 7:38:21 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574589
 
Tim,

re: Not true.

Yes true, unless you are a nitwit trying to make some obscure point.

re: He was someone we used to try and work with.

Not true. He was someone we did work with.

re: And it was very costly in terms of causing Iraqi suffering.

And now they are doing so well, supported by the US taxpayer? If this was a humanitarian mission, it was a retro humanitarian mission. This was supposed to be DEFENSIVE, remember? You can't seriously still believe that SH was a threat to the US before the war. Now, yes, at least to US soldiers.

re: What would you do that we are not doing now?

I would have taken the ~200,000 troops that went to Iraq, blasted into the Pakistan mountains where he is hiding, and killed the son of a bitch. Probably with less casualties than we have had (so far) in Iraq.

re: True but its also true about all government spending.

Iraq is discretionary, incremental and unnecessary.

John



To: TimF who wrote (177524)11/4/2003 8:07:52 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574589
 
He was never our best friend. He was someone we used to try and work with. Not the same thing. Its possible that he could have become someone that we want to "try and work with" again, but it seems very unlikely.

That's an understatement. Reagan and Bush I were strong supporters of Saddam in his war with Iran.

ted