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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (12803)	4/7/2004 3:50:50 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Lorne, it's not nations that would use wmds against us. Nations have too much to lose and their leaders are living too good a life to make targets of themselves. Take "madman Saddam" for instance, unlike Bin Ladin and the suicide bombers, he clearly had no desire to martyr himself. An Iraq with chemical and biological weapons was not a threat to us. Many nations have such weapons and they are not all "civilized" nations. An Osama Bin Laden with such weapons, however, is another story. And the 1,000 Bin Ladins that the Egyptian president warned we'd create with an invasion and occupation of Iraq greatly increases the odds of that possibility. I liked it better when it was Saddam that was hunting and killing the Islamic fundamentalists and their clerics than I do when we are the ones doing it in a land with different cultures, different languages and a different religion. But hey, we took him out and put ourselves right in the middle of it all. That wasn't a brilliant move at all. I think that the people in the Mideast will do what they will do and find their own balance. If they kill each other, then they kill each other. Our presence simply gives them a foreign target and a reason to unite against an infidel occupier. It wasn't hard to see this coming and now it's not hard to see where it's going. For those that say we must stay the course and that we can't fail in Iraq, I wonder if they've thought of the possibility that we CAN'T stay the course and that we're doomed to failure in Iraq no matter what we do. Or maybe I'm wrong and we're willing to spend many more hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives in Iraq; a nation that cares so little for our idea of it's future that it's us and not them that HAVE TO DIE FOR THAT VISION. It's all been said before and as I've said, "only fools rush over the cliff like sheep, rational people see the cliff and stop." When it becomes clear that the benefits of staying in Iraq, FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, do not justify the loss of lives and treasure, we will make another plan, call it all a success, and turn tail and leave. That's as it should be, there is no merit in stubbornly persisting in following a path that leads to abject defeat. The question is how long it will take for the American people to read through the doublespeak and see the realities of "helping" the Iraqi people. PS. I was an independent until Bush, but now I think I'm a Democrat.