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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (574530)	5/12/2004 2:14:24 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Did the US make one huge mistake? - not sending in enough troops to start the invasion. All other blunders flowed from that mistake. We couldn't stop the looting. We couldn't secure the arms caches. We couldn't provide security. We couldn't minimize the casualties. We couldn't guard the prisoners.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (574530)	5/12/2004 4:46:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Excuse me. Did the U.S. declare war on Islamic Fundamentalists? Yes. Did we blow up 3,000 Islamic terrorists in one day? No, we sided with a secular Saddam over an Islamic state in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed in that war; not just 3000. Even though he lost that war, Saddam was so confident of US support he then attacked Kuwait......the rest is history. Do we run from every fight? I don't understand your question but I will say that not all fights are created equal and what works in one fight might not work in another. If we do, we'll soon discover that the terrorists will be more than happy to stage their atrocities right here on American soil. If that's really your fear, why then are we fighting in Iraq? Saddam was not a terrorist but a miserable despot. The people who beheaded Berg were not Iraqi insurgents but al Qaeda operatives. When will you all figure out the difference? Would you prefer that scenario? If not, how exactly do you plan to keep that from happening after we desert the Iraqi people and run back home? By going after our real enemy....al Qaeda. And by not using an army but going underground where al Qaeda hides. There's a reason we have not been able to find Osama. Its called incompetence. If you want to learn how we should operate, study Mossad....Israeli Intel. You've been listening to naysayers in the American press. BS. I have studied the ME. I know how it operates. You apparently think you know. It's not news to them unless it's bad news. Take the time to get a more balanced picture of the struggle in Iraq. What do you think the struggle is? Today a British journalist asked Iraqis on the street their reaction to yesterday's slaughter of an American. Everyone of them stated that they were horrified and that the action did not represent them or their religion. It took a British reporter to cover that story. And your point was? I can find Iraqis that are opposed to al Qaeda, terrorism, Saddam etc. That doesn't change the fact that we have created a mess...that George Bush has turned Iraq into a war on terrorism battlefield. Its no more real than his war on terrorism. You want to defeat terrorism.........you have to fight them on their playing field and not the one we would like it to be. We are losing the war in Iraq........mainly because smart people like you are misinformed and want to believe that might makes right. Its doesn't......at least not always. The sooner we wake up to that fact and recognize that this is not 1940 and that we are not fighting a conventional war, then the better off we will be. And in the future, we citizens better pay more attention to what kind of politics our gov't is playing overseas.