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

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (487888)	11/6/2003 12:18:58 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Rick, The terrorists were chosen by bin Laden, he could have picked Pakistanis, Egyptians, Bosnians, Indians, British citizens... he wanted and picked Saudis. Iraq was not under control, but contained after the first Gulf War - the evidence for this, is the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Saddam killed after the war and during UN Sanctions. If you count the thousands of innocent who died from "Operation Iraqi Freedom", shouldn't you balance that with hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, who were killed by Saddam during UN Imposed Sanctions? Is it o.k. to have military forces in the region enforcing Sanctions and a "No Fly Zone" (the No Fly Zone was meant to hinder Saddam's ability to commit genocide against the Kurds and Shiites) in the skies, over an country, while - on the ground - genocide is being committed? I realize that bin Laden's group will continue to attack Americans (military and civilian). But at least the United States will be able to soon remove two of the major reasons bin Laden declared war on the America - U.S. enforcement of UN Sanctions on Iraq, and U.S. troops being stationed in Saudi Arabia (used to enforce Sanctions and the "No Fly Zones").

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (487888)	11/6/2003 3:43:41 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

re: what about the innocent women & children in Iraq? what about your concern for innocent when they were gassed by Saddam? re: pretty soon will have to get the cia in there to plant the weapons if they would want to plant them then you would already be found - on the contrary, Bush is fairly honest about WMD re: Bushies lets not go there unless you want to hear again truth about canada been welfare or US charity state re: IMHO the world is alot less safer than it was before the Iraqi invasion....... funny, I did not see it that way when I was visiting NY after 911 and no I am not implying that iraq is responsible for 911 directly but iraq openly supported terrorism re: It's all about oil perhaps but not the way you implying. We are not after Iraqi oil but we are concerned with stability in the region that is our major oil supplier re: If your country didn't want our natural resources I'm sure they could go shopping elsewhere..... as you are very well aware we shopping around in Russia. Be careful what you ask for you just might get it <g> re: Halliburton's price was too high is that directly connected to our war in Iraq? Anyways he is charging as much as he can get away with that is the difference between canadian socialism and free market re: Us industry is the most heavily subsidized/protectionist in the world, therefore by defintion socialized are you sure you are talking about US and not canada? re: It's "YOUR MONEY" Albert exactly, I spend them as I see fit and I would rather pay Halliburton than UN