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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (66612)	5/22/2006 8:44:28 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Ridding the world of Saddam's dictatorial Iraq was a fine start (much better than supporting him, agreed). It's a nice thought and it seems intuitive. There is a domino theory. The Administration uses the domino theory that Iraq will be the model of democracy in the mid-East and surrounding countries will clamor for democracy and we will all live happily ever after. Though for some unknown reason, Turkey is a democracy and it hasn't started any domino theory. There is another domino theory that says: You've light a match in an explosive's factory and you don't know how it's all going to end. None of the war game simulations at the Army War College had good outcomes. There was no winning strategy. Everything I've seen about the planning for Iraq has been: Let's do "this" and see if it works the way we want it to work out. If it doesn't we'll try something else. No point in thinking about contingencies since we really don't know what is going to happen. We'll just keep doing "something" until it works out the way we want it to. Was the War in Iraq started to account for the WMD; it didn't and won't. Was the War in Iraq started because Saddam was a threat to the US? It wasn't? Is the War in Iraq going to get rid of Al Qaeda,? It won't, regardless of the near term outcome in Iraq. Al Qaeda is barely in Iraq. Is it the central front on GWOT? The very notion of "central front" is conventional warfare and terrorism hardly constitutes conventional warfare. Each year in this central front on GWOT, the acts of terrorism around the world continue to increase significantly. One record breaking year after another for acts of terrorism. If Iraq breaks out into full scale civil war and then starts bringing in ethnic support from neighboring countries which leads to a regional war that ends up bringing in Israel into the conflict and 20% of the population in the ME is wiped out and global oil supplies from the ME come to a screaching halt and global terrorism contintues to increase was getting Saddam out of power a good start? jttmab