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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (38629)	7/29/2004 10:59:33 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Looks like Wes Clark to replace Rumsfeld.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (38629)	7/29/2004 11:11:07 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

Everyone says it would have been impossible for the Iraqi people to rise up and over throw the Iron fisted dictator Saddam. But now we see all these insurgents rising up to throw off the yoke of American occupation. I ask the question...is Saddam more powerful than the United States armed forces? I understand why we might have had to take out Saddam...if he had WMD and was an imminent threat. But our intelligence to that matter has been a joke. Spilling American blood to bring freedom to Iraq is not what I want my country doing. Let the Iraqis do the heavy lifting if the finger of Saddam was pressing on them. Why weren't they driving car bombs into Saddam's palaces? Into his police stations? Into his hospitals? Into his army barracks? I do believe in assisting people to become free, but fighting their war for them? And now we have become the targets in the war. Something is not adding up in the Bush policy. Orca

To: stockman_scott who wrote (38629)	7/29/2004 11:37:23 AM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 81568

That's a good point. It's one of the biggest problems I have with this whole "War on Terror". Those Bi$$ions of dollars would be much better spent right here at home employing more police, gathering more intelligence, building a better anti-terror infrastructure, etc. Also, these hot wars we're engaging in are having the opposite (probably the intended) effect of creating more terrorists and more resentment against the U.S. in the arab world. I say the intended effect, because I think this whole War on Terror is being pushed by the military industrial complex (MIC) to further their existence. More terrorist, more angry arabs, means more funding for the good ole MIC. It's like the good ole Cold War days of nearly limitless military spending (another war that was overblown by these same interests). We're fighting this "War" in a typical American half-assed way. With heavy reliance on military solutions, and no root cause solutions being developed. Two root cause solutions to our terrorism problem would be to force the Israelies to settle their differences with the Palestinians (we could withhold our $4B), and to fund a serious effort to get ourselves off Mid East oil, so we could disengage from that trecherous part of the world.