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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (7702)	5/17/2004 3:57:02 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 90947

There were no negotiations. It was only a continuation of the No Fly program that Bush left in place. The containment of Saddam was successful. He was in a box and everyone knew he was boxed up. Now that said, if one was going to consider going to war, we should have first ratcheted up the pressure on Saddam. This is becoming painfully obvious as the only intelligent approach to Iraq. Even with military invasion we are not assured of a good outcome. In fact now we have an even more volatile situation in Iraq. The elimination of Saddam has destabilized Iraq and the middle east, just as Brent Scowcroft predicted. It's left a power vacuum which is going to eventually be filled by one Islamic ego maniac or another. By the way your name calling won't make your argument any stronger. I know I'm wasting my time pointing that out, as almost every message you post begins with the same name calling lead in. Member 4357004 But here's the rub. Bush's approval numbers are heading right into the toilet. His approval rating for the war in Iraq has hit a new low. The majority of people in the world disagree with you and your republican henchmen and the way they have conducted the war on terror. That doesn't mean that intelligent people are against using military force when needed. But intelligent people are not in favor of using military force where it is not needed. Bush cannot demonstrate that the war in Iraq was needed. It was not an imminent threat. In fact his reasons for the war...and now his post war justifications have morphed until the only reason he had left was "nation building". The very thing that he accused the Clinton administration of engaging in with Bosnia. Flip, flop, flip, flop... Orca