Byron...some allies just can't read, listen, or see. Either that, or they are holding out for additional foreign aid and/or a guarantee that THEIR oil source won't be interrupted.
Shame on them!
Posted on 09/09/2002 5:26:51 AM PDT by SJackson
The world is keeping check on Saddam Hussein as if it were making sure that Jack the Ripper paid his parking tickets on time.
The international community is doing what it does best: wait and see.
But President Bush, we know, soon will reveal detailed information that shows Hussein for the evil that he is. This information will show that civilization simply cannot afford to haggle with itself until it is too late.
Once Iraq, a country twice the size of Idaho, has a nuclear weapon, it won't be considered small anymore.
Time is the only commodity Hussein needs to fulfill his terrible dream. Every political rally warning against "the war," every editorial recommending "patience," every running-for-office politician who "condemns" an attack against Iraq has a death wish. The problems of uprooting Hussein from his underground bunkers and laboratories are dwarfs in comparison with the new Holocaust awaiting us if we don't do so.
That said, Iraq has a history of poor combat performance.
Hussein's army failed miserably against the U.S. coalition forces in 1991. It could not even handle the inefficient Iranian foot soldiers for eight years during the 1980s, and it lost the territories it gained when it attacked Iran.
In October 1973, it sent one armored division to help the Syrians on the Golan Heights. That unit fell into an elementary but devastating trap set by the Israelis.
Although it sent a huge army to help its Jordanian brethren just before the Six-Day War, the Iraqi forces retreated to Baghdad as fast as they could once the shooting started.
In 1948, Iraq sent to Palestine the biggest military force of all Arab states--and failed to have any impact on the war results. The stories about Iraqi officers deserting their trenches while locking their soldiers in chains so that they could not join them became part of Israeli War of Independence folklore.
The only two sources of real power that Hussein has today are his Gestapo-like control of his people and his imminent nuclear threat capability.
Time is on his side. Therefore, he must be destroyed.
Iraq should be treated as an island state without a navy. The "ocean" is a combination of the desert (almost half of the country) and Iraq's hostile neighbors. The "navy" in this case is actually the air force because in the desert, the one who has the more efficient air force is the winner before the war even begins. In the desert there is no place to hide from marauding planes or smart bombs.
The U.S. forces can land with a minimum force of no more than a couple of battalions on the western tip of Iraq that borders Jordan, take over two old airports named H-2 and H-3 and create an instant base of operations, probably without suffering casualties.
How outrageous, that the world wants to see some actual evidence, before signing on for a war.
Byron...some allies just can't read, listen, or see. Either that, or they are holding out for additional foreign aid and/or a guarantee that THEIR oil source won't be interrupted.
Shame on them!
Maybe, but don't count me in with that rabble. I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but I'll say it for the umpteenth time :
Where is Bin Laden?
Does no-one care? Or, just how short can a collective memory span be? Osama's down the Tora Bora memory hole, and Saddam's the new bogeyman of the week. Incredible. This Administration, colluding with the media, steering the American people the way you do, when you draw a woollen thread in front of a kitten. Milking 911 for emotibucks, the way they did with Diana, or JFK Jnr. And me, roaming the threads like a downunder Diogenes, trying to find a Freeper honest enough to say, 'I'm mad as hell, and I won't be manipulated any more!'
Some say it via Freepmail, for which I'm grateful.
Tony, I'll tell you what you owe to future generations:
protecting the shining jewel that makes it all possible, the US Constitution.
Not throwing away your freedoms, and wrapping yourself in the putrid security blanket of More Government. Not suspending disbelief, and opening wide for every lie, that comes down the pike from DC. And not cheering for an attack on a tinpot dictatorship, an attack produced and directed by cynical opportunists, so arrogant and so contemptuous of the American publics' critical faculties that they can't be bothered to present any but the most spurious 'reasons.'
Instead we're going to milk this thing for political bucks, test a bunch of new expensive weapons, and end up with a new Iraqi government that is marginably better than the current one. That is what I don't like about the deal.
The President hasn't talked about attacking Iraq ..... he has mentioned regime change. But the media have been playing up the talk of war for months.
I don't understand why so many people are so bent out of joint over our going to war with no proof when the only talk of battle, invasion, etc. has come from the media.
If we end up with troops in Iraq with no explanation, then there will be plenty of cause for concern ...... but so far we only have hype from the media and the talking heads and so-called "experts" .......
I have confidence that the President will inform the American public .... and the world .... before taking action.
I completely agree with this. My problem is that 1) I'm not going to agree with the action. And 2) I'm pretty suspicious of the timing of the thing.
I do not favor a deal where we run Saddam out and let a marginally better leadership take control. Look at Afghanistan.... have we left it in good shape?
short collective memory span
This Administration, colluding with the media, steering the American people
milking 911 for emotibucks the way they did with Diana, or JFK Jnr. trying to find a Freeper honest enough to say, 'I'm mad as hell, and I won't be manipulated any more!'
Some say it via Freepmail, for which I'm grateful.(unsure what THIS indicates, except for they don't have the courage of their convictions to speak in open forum)
wrapping yourself in the putrid security blanket of More Government
Not suspending disbelief and opening wide for every lie, that comes down the pike from DC.
not cheering for an attack on a tinpot dictatorship
cynical opportunists, so arrogant and so contemptuous of the American publics' critical faculties that they can't be bothered to present any but the most spurious 'reasons.
I wish you well in your quest. Apparently you REALLY go out of your way to start threads simply to Bash-Bush.
Now I know. And I won't support or play your game again.
Look at Afghanistan.... have we left it in good shape?
They knowingly harbored terrorists that killed 3,000 of our people.
Maybe we should build them houses and shopping malls or something.
They lived in the dirt before we got there, they live in the dirt still. The fact that we left most of them alive was rather forgiving of us, I’d say.
I've never done anything of the sort, and neither you nor anyone else could produce a single example of that. Matter of fact I had very high hopes for this president, and for months was in denial about his real agenda for America.
Pigeon pucks.
Go read today's selection, from the panel to the right. Start with any front page from the New York Post.
War sells news, Quilla.
I don't think we should have built them shopping malls. I think it should be an american colony right now... being run by american's.
Running a perpetual police state on the other side of the world might sound like a good idea, but it would cost us many many billions of dollars and likely the lives of thousands of US soldiers. It’s not in our best interests.
I don't like the idea where we let the warring tribes take over.... because in a few years the stronger of those will prevail and they hate us too.
Then we blow them up again, and keep doing it, until they get it right. That’s the cheaper, and likely more effective, method.
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