Posted on 10/20/2006 2:18:37 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
No, I would never have supported this war if I knew that we would hold our men back, treat them like criminals, handle the enemy with kid gloves, obsess over the vile creatures of the "Arab street", and give the media carte blanche to betray our fighting men.
Very true. But this site has too many borderline-nationalist cheerleaders, and far too few true conservatives in the classical sense.
Iraq broke the peace agreement.
We had every right to go in.
It was the UN that was balking (France and Russia) because they were getting illegal oil.
Sadaam had to prove to us that he didn't have WMD's, we did not have to prove he did to invade.
I agree.
Even though we had every right to go in, did we have a compelling reason to invade at a cost of several thousands lives and hundreds of billions of dollars apart from the threat of WMDs?
She's lost my vote.
Ofcourse we did!
We are in a war against terrorism, and Iraq was a leading exponent of it, supporting various groups.
Thank you very much....I have NEVER doubted there were WMDS...
Please try not to interpret history while it is being rewritten.
So Hutchison didn't care at all about Saddam's defiance of all those UN Resolutions, huh? Remember those, Ms. Hutchison???!
If we had known there were no WMD few people would have suported invading. The other reasons were not imperative.
The problem was we didn't know and we had good reasons to think there were.
So did everyone else.
I think that Barbra Ann Radnofsky commercial is so funny. They talk about the deficit, all time spending, etc. At the end, the announcer says, "This November, everyone will be saying, Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Bar, Barbra Ann."
He has that part right. I will vote to BAR Barbra Ann from ever serving in the US Senate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3872201.stm
If you're a scholar, do your research then see if your statement still rings true...
Real men need to serve. Where is Thacker when we need her?
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
After the 1991 Gulf War, then-United States Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney reported that "Saddam Hussein's offensive military capability, his capacity to threaten his neighbors, has been virtually eliminated." Yet there was still much concern over Iraq's weapons programs, so United Nations Resolutions were passed to impose sanctions on the regime of Saddam Hussein until it was verified that its weapons of mass destruction were destroyed.
From April 1991 and the formation of UNSCOM, Iraq had been under ongoing pressure by the United Nations to declare and destroy its biological and chemical weapons. In total the UN had passed 13 resolutions calling for complete access of UNSCOM and IAEA officials to locate and destroy all weapons of mass destruction.[17]
Starting in the aftermath of the war and continuing until 1998, UNSCOM inspected Iraq, locating and destroying large quantities of chemical agents, nuclear-related equipment and other prohibited materials.[17][18][19] Conflict between Iraq and the UN developed during 1998, however, which led to the withdrawal of the UN and the authorization of a bombing campaign by the Clinton administration to "degrade Saddam's capacity to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction, and to degrade his ability to threaten his neighbors".[20][21][22]
Furthermore, in November 1998, at the urging of President Bill Clinton, the U.S. House of Representatives and the US Senate passed the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998," [23] which "declare[d] that it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government." President Clinton signed this bill into law. It also stated that "nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize or otherwise speak to the use of United States Armed Forces," instead calling for support of Iraqi opposition groups."
Beginning with a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 12, 2002 President George W. Bush began a public campaign to convince the world that Saddam Hussein was violating both the commitments he had made at the end of the First Gulf War and which prior UN resolutions dealt with: weapons of mass destruction, human rights, Kuwaiti prisoners of war, terrorism, long range SCUD missiles, the U.N. Oil-for-Food Programme and allowing UN inspectors to return to Iraq after their removal in 1998.[26]
Some members of the Bush administration implied a link between the Hussein government to the September 11, 2001 attacks, partly on the basis of an alleged meeting in Prague in April 2001 involving an Iraqi intelligence agent and other evidence.[27][28]. Both a Senate Select Committee and the 9/11 Commission failed to uncover convincing evidence of such a link, and specifically found no evidence of an Atta meeting in Prague.[29][30][31] (See also Atta in Prague and Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda).
On October 10, 2002 the 107th Congress of the United States passed HJ Res 114 titled "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002." Among the reasons noted in the Congressional resolution authorizing force were Iraq's non-compliance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441,[32] aid to terrorists (PALF),[33][34] a 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush (George W. Bush's father)[35] and the Emir of Kuwait, in addition to violations of the no-fly zones.[36]
On February 5, 2003 Colin Powell attempted to convince the UN Security Council that Saddam Hussein's regime posed a significant and timely threat to international security.[45] The Bush administration also claimed that Iraq was allied with al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, including the Palestinian Arab Liberation Front (PALF), Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah.[46][47][48][49] Bush administration officials also claimed that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.[50]
LOL...I am SO sick of that commercial...but it doesn't bother me as much as the "GRANDMA" commercials for Strayhorn...yikes!
Personally, I'm very glad the courts ruled that Carole, _____________________________________________ (insert current - name - name here) was not allowed to use Grandma on the ballot. The biggest problem I have with all the gov candidates is, they are or were all democrats at one time. As Rush says, "never trust a woman with a hyphenated last name".
Oh...that is so right...
Bush sure cleared her sons out of Washington quickly..didn't he??
And what was Saddam doing for months while the UN was jerking us around- he was moving his stash out of there. I'm sick and tired of these idiots with this bulls**t line about 'knowing what we know now'.... It's BS! And now we're hearing Republicans spew this line of crap. There are no do-overs Sen Hutchinson.
bttt
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