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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (8186)	12/8/2004 10:04:51 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Dennis, to jhave left Saddam in power was to allow Chemical Ali, and his wife to continue their research and development, of small biological weapons that were headed to the shelves of US stores. The regime was allowing Al-Quaeda representatives to train in the North, via Ansar Al-Islam, and the base had to be closed as well. I really think we should have polished off Afghanistan before taking on Iraq. The flourishing opium trade and lack of any real security outside Kabul shows that in the end we didn't really make a dent in the problems there, and bin Laden is almost certainly in Pakistan free to plan more terrorism and fire up Muslims with his videotapes. If we knew about a terrorist base in Northern Iraq, we could have just done a routine bombing of that base alone on some pretext or other, to keep things softened up somewhat before ever taking on any full fledged invasion. We needed a lot more manpower and resources than we have to have pulled off taking out the Baathist regime smoothly. In the end it may be a success of some sort though, at least I certainly hope so ! But right now with suicide truck bombings and beheadings nearly an every day occurrence, it looks horrible.