To: Herb Duncan who wrote (28635 ) 12/30/2006 6:28:15 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to I don't know Herb. One could argue the politics of war all day and night. Obviously Vietnam, Domino or not, was a war started on pretext as thin as the uniforms on the Polish soldiers at the German border in 1939. However the pretext to start the war that went into Afghanistan and Iraq was to reduce the base of guerilla warfare that had landed on the North American doorstep with 911. People have since argued that Iraq as a major force threatening mid east domination was not such a harbour of the so-called terrorism, but an entirely different issue. The Issue was whether or not Iraq had the capability or would have developed the capability of nuclear missile delivery. They at one time had a reactor and parts for bombs. For ten years they had played cat and mouse with UN inspectors. Could they have made deals to funnel all their equipment across the border to Syria in anticipation of an invasion or even during the invasion? After all they had the Kuwait experience as a model, and ten years to think about it. Undoubtedly their military advisers could have warned of the possibility of being overrun by the superior US equipment and intelligence gathering. That they did not find overwhelming evidence of a network of factories, or even enough equipment to outfit a good army for a prolonged resistance is hardly surprising, if the enemy had any brains at all.
