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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181924)1/30/2004 2:20:18 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574854
 
re: ...but there were many other benefits of taking out Saddam, a well-known supporter of terrorism and a major source of anti-American sentiment.

It's a big price to pay to take out a paper tiger that didn't support terrorism, at least not on a level of, say, Iran. SH and BL didn't get along; it was the secular v. the fundamental thing. If that was the basis of the decision, then SA would be the place to have gone. They support more terrorism in a day than Iraq did in a year.

And I know you don't think we should go to war with every country that happens to be "anti-American". We could start with most of Europe.

No, Bush wants more bases in the ME. He wants more bases because he want to protect the oil flow. That and SH dissed his father. But you can't sell a war on those kind of justifications, so the WMD's and imminent were the thing.

John



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (181924)1/31/2004 3:24:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574854
 
Was that knowledge alone worth the price we paid? Definitely not, but there were many other benefits of taking out Saddam, a well-known supporter of terrorism and a major source of anti-American sentiment.

There is absolutely no evidence that he was "a well known supporter of terrorism". I can not believe you say it over and over and over again in the hopes that you will convince us and yourself that its true. Its isn't and it never will be.

ted