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

To: techguerrilla who wrote (51493)	10/5/2004 9:06:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I don't think the war authorization vote was a mistake. Matters of war and peace should be bipartisan. They are bigger than party matters. You are right in your gut feel, Bush 41 should have finished the job. Now, though, with this fiasco in Iraq, we have linked up the Islamic terrorists with a direct route from Iran to Saudi Arabia. Can anyone spell "dominoes"? I don't know - terrorists can get around pretty well in the ME. They could before and they can now. Saying the ME is more volatile is now - well, we think so cause we see it more as we have troops on the ground in Iraq. But its always been volatile and violent and will be for a very long time. Before Iraq, we had troops in SA & Kuwait & elsewhere - enforcing sanctions, nofly zones, waiting for Saddam to start his next war. Given the turmoil in the ME and the stakes (PG oil vital to world economy + terrorism from the region brought to our homeland - before the Iraq war btw) we are going to have to be involved. Do you remember that the sanctions that everyone is now saying was a fine stalemate controlling Saddam were a key reason OBL gave for his pre-911 fatwa? And remember the beating we were taking in world opinion for enforcing the sanctions which propaganda said were killing 500,000 Iraqi babies? We were taking a beating for Iraq before the overthrow of Saddam too.