Posted on 10/20/2006 2:18:37 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
Well Young Scholar how long do you think it would have taken to put the WMD pieces together? Clearly there was the will and there was the infrastructure and the wealth. How long can any nation seriously deter a nation without taking any credible action? Oil for food demonstrated the folly of "pretend" deterence. As for building democracy, we did it in Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Phillepeans and to a certain extent Taiwan - it took a long time and a lot of money. We failed in South Vietnam and are on the verge of failing in Iraq. I believe we are safer for our efforts. I don't fear Germany, Japan, South Korea and others will build and distribute WMD. I think it is more likely in places where thugs maintain power through murder and torture. I'd also hate to see a world where terrorism always trumps democracy because good men chose to do nothing or don't want to spend more than 3 years doing it. The world has grown just too small for me to ignore the murders and rapes in a neighbor's house. WMD may yet thin the heard and make that small world much bigger in the future...not that it's any of our business. ;-)
Too bad there weren't others he should have cleared out of DC. All the X-42 bunch should have been sent packing. That was one weakness I saw at the start. Get the bags out and throw the garbage into the dumpster.
Another reason why the LP will never win anything higher than dog catcher.
Out of here for today.
If you kindly re-read the thread, the poster gave a valid explanation of this.
See ya later....VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
I know there were other reasons, but in my opinion, only the threat of a nuclear or other large-scale WMD attack was enough to justify the invasion. The other reasons had merit, but I don't think they were compelling enough on their own to make such a war worth the costs (which is the same thing Senator Hutchison is saying).
She is wrong on that one!!!
How does SHE knows there are NONE???
That's hard to say, and given what we believed at the time, there certainly were good reasons to invade.
As for building democracy, it has become a useful goal when we've been involved in countries for other reasons (for instance, Germany or Japan), but on its own I doubt many would consider it a good reason for significant military operations in a country. Since we're in Iraq already, we should ceratinly make every effort to promote a stable government, but the goal of a stable government wouldn't have alone provided a sufficient reason to enter the country in the first place.
I read every post made by the poster before making mine. If you think the explanation is valid that's your opinion. We differ.
You never vote for the person who represents your views less than another candidate on the same ballot unless you're somewhat mentally handicapped or don't care about logic whatsoever.
Politicis 101. Get what you can get. And try to get more the next time.
Politics for retards. Vote for someone you don't like because it will teach the good guys to get better.
Dangerous way to think about things.
Your response is sickening to me. KBH and GWB relied on intelligence from the CIA. Tell me which party raped this agency (starting with Frank Church) and which party infested their philosophy - ala State Dept? Tell me which party has done everything they could to tie the hands of the intellegent agencies and continue to do that to this day? Don't dare spew this crap without understanding how we got to this point!D~
That's an opinion. Not the only one but an opinion.
Agreed. I just think it's a more traditionally conservative position than that taken by many neoconservatives.
Yes you could be right but then i'm not sure there is a real consensus on what IS conservative and what isn't. Also something to consider, conservative ideals of 50 - 100 years ago just might have to be altered in a world where biological WMD can be concealed in a shaving kit and transported to our shores in less than a day. And yes, I'll acknowledge that I could just be worrying too much too. :-)
I'm still gonna hold my nose and take some anti-nausea pills and vote republican.
I'm not taking a chance that KBH could lose - I'm voting for her. If it makes you feel better, just vote straight republican. That way you can feel like you're just voting for the party and not an individual.
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