Posted on 06/16/2004 1:07:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Not always. But I believe Saddam was a threat to us, and that we were right to take him out.
But I don't believe our military should have been told that the primary purpose of the mission was to free the Iraqis.
That result is a by-product. But the purpose and justice of the mission was to eliminate a threat to the US.
That is the only legitimate justifcation for our invasion.
.So who do we send this to in order to get some publicity? Any ideas?
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Well, we all can send to our entire email lists. That would be pretty powerful in getting the truth out.
Bump!
After 9/11, it became clear to those of us who love America that something needed to be done about the Middle East, a festering swamp of incompetently run dictatorships that generate terrorists capable of flying airplanes into American buildings. Iraq, a known mass-murdering dictatorship and open supporter of terror and Islamic radicalism, was the logical place to start.
George Bush made one miscalculation, but it wasn't WMDs or links to al Qaeda. How could he have anticipated that the Left, both here and in Old Europe, would align itself so completely with the terrorists? That the Western news media would go so far out of their way to spin every day as a disaster for the coalition?
This is a keeper.
Neal Boortz and Glenn Reynolds.
Does the author of this article believe everything he's told? Hopefully not.
The two arguments listed are not correct. First, the Congressional resolution that authorized President Bush to use force of arms if necessary to remove the Hussein regime stated that Iraq had the "capacity to possess" weapons of mass destruction, not that he possessed WMD. The capacity to possess would include the research & development, manufacturing, and delivery systems components, all of which have been found, according to the Iraq Survey Group.
Secondly, never once has the Bush administration issued any formal announcement stating a connection between Hussein's regime and al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks. Officials have suggested a relationship between the two, which again has been proven by recovered Iraqi documents as well as various intelligence services.
So, just because "everyone knows" something, or someone tells you something, doesn't make it true. The Big Lie theory has been employed regarding our reasons for invading Iraq ever since public debate began, and unfortunately millions have fallen for it.
Henry Lee II
"Leftists are crazed and violent people,
with the blood of millions on their hands.”
On certain aspect of your article I do disagree with you, respectfully as a wife of my husband in Iraq. First, when call came in on February at 2:30 for my husband to get ready to be for action soon, only thing he told me : Americans are ready, Saddam is finished and so are terrorist, Americans want to rebuild Iraq and create democracy, so other countries in Middle East will fall from their tyranny and accept democracy. As he said, Americans want to put stick in a heart of terrorist by taking off Saddam and killing other bugs.
This war was also plan to see who are true friend of America. As I said, I respectfully disagree on some points, but I give you my whole respect and thank you.
Right.
I am afraid the U.N. is primarily interested in being in the loop on setting up resolutions that they, individual members of the security council, can then break and deal under the table for extreme profits. Same as they were doing with the Oil for Food program.
Corrupt. And makes you wonder why the big push from liberals to have the U.N. determine when America can defend herself.
Bump
Bin Laden's rallying cry, his 1998 jihad statement blaming the US for Saddam's atrocities, has now been exposed as the big lie it always was - thanks to our troops, and our war in Iraq.
Will the world hear the truth from our free press?
Allies around the world are finding, and sharing the truth - often from the troops reporting from the war zones.
When do you choose to pack up and quit fighting those who do plot and promote and carry out our destruction in a post-911 world?
Thanks to our CinC, our DoD, our troops - the terrorists are being drawn to Iraq and Afghanistan where brave men and women face and take them out - by the thousands, exposing the true character of these enemies in public - as anti-American terrorists send children - strapped with dynamite, raised on hate - to die in their place, and use women as human shields...even as our troops risk their lives and save the children of strangers.
Because the bad guys are busy assuring their own deaths at the hands of our far mightier military in Iraq and Afghanistan - for almost 3 years post-911 we have never had a major attack on the homefront, or any day with mass-US casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan, in spite of press reports implying otherwise, and thanks to the skill and courage of our awesome troops under the protection and direction of their unseen, ever-present, Almighty *Commander-In-Chief.*
I sent it off to Jim Quinn at warroom.com
He has a lot of these kind of soldiers on his show, and he'd love this Marine.
We'll see.
FMCDH
OK. I just did.
Bump!
Always. No exceptions. Even if they can't do anything about us, there's the threat they will try.
Thanks for the ping
" Along with the violence, I saw many things that lifted my heart.
I saw thousands of Iraqis in cities like Qurnah and Medinah - men, women, children, grandparents carrying babies - running into the streets at the sight of us, the first Western army to arrive.
I saw them screaming, crying, waving, cheering.
They ran from their homes at the sound of our Humvee tires roaring in from the south, bringing bread and tea and cigarettes and photos of their children.
They chattered at us in Arabic, and we spoke to them in English, and neither understood the other.
The entire time I was in Iraq, I had one impression from the civilians I met:
Thank God, finally someone has arrived with bigger men and bigger guns to be, at last, on our side. "
Every Democrat who has spouted the falsehood that " Cheney lied when he told us that the troops would be welcomed with flowers " needs to be called on their deception.
First to mind-Carville, Begala, Kerry and McAuliffe.
These dirtbags knew the truth and yet continued to smear the troops on a daily basis.
I don't believe that Milosevic was ever a threat to us, and I think Clinton's 78-day bombing of Belgrade was a war crime.
We do not always need to go to war to toss a dictator.
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