[Sabertooth]

[Sabertooth]

"The dictator of Iraq is a student of Stalin," President Bush said in his prime-time speech the other day.

Hussein and petrified British child, held briefly hostage prior to Gulf War in 1990. Trying to make like "Uncle Joe" Stalin (right), Saddam was even less convincing.

Hussein the Conqueror

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[dighton]

Let him react as he pleases. It will avail him not.

[The Great Satan]

Who sent the anthrax, Jacob?

[LibWhacker]

The fact that the Bush administration keeps bringing it up suggests the weakness of its argument that attacking Iraq would enhance U.S. security.

What an imbecile. Dubya keeps bringing it up to demonstrate Saddam is a totally unhinged madman. Of course it's relevant and strengthens the American argument and does not, as this fool says, suggest the argument is weak.

Kindly use a barf alert next time!

[MoralSense]

Yet the administration has no evidence that Iraq is cooperating with al Qaeda or is likely to do so.

Wrong, as outlined in the President's Cincinnati speech, and in numerous published stories, most notably a long investigative piece in the New Yorker.

The most important reason to attack Iraq is that Iraq is the nail sticking up, and the nail sticking up gets hit. That sounds facetious, but it's not. The best way to combat terrorism comprehensively is to rearrange the politics of the entire Middle East, and deposing Saddam is an excellent place to start.

[A CA Guy]

Saddan will try and use the weapons he doesn't have. Starting with Israel, he will lob all kinds of caca hoping to start a Jihad.
He can only hope to turn this into an us versus them holy war or this is over.

[Consort]

And the argument that "Saddam might unleash all his lethal weapons if we attack because he will have nothing to lose" can be applied to other scenarios besides a US attack. For example: if he contracts a fatal desease and is given 4, 5, or 6 months to live, he may let loose with all his weapons. Or, if he gets credible info about a potential palace coup that he won't survive, he might do the same thing.

[bjcintennessee]

Near the end of the Gulf War, Suddam declared a jihad against the US, a call to every Islamic extremist whacko to collaborate in our destruction. It is my firm belief that the ensuing years have been spent in plotting and planning with terrorists, our annihilation. Why should we wait for the kind of proof "that would stand up in our liberal courts", when we have a reasonable certainty that Suddam would enable terrorists to cross our open borders with a variety of WMD's?

Oops -- I forgot -- that poor despotic dictator claims that he has no weapons of mass destruction!

[Prodigal Son]

How will Saddam react? I figure him for one of those B Movie melodramatists- he'll probably lurch around with his hands clutching his chest. He'll probably yell "Argghh! They got me!" Then he'll fall down. While he's down he'll probably give his emotional last words and close his eyes. His minions will start to weep then Saddam's eyes will pop back open and he'll say "And one more thing..." Repeat several times until he loses enough blood to truly give up the ghost.

[mhking]

"Here come the planes...
They're American planes,
Made in America.
Smoking?
Or non-smoking..."

[doug from upland]

Another foolish Libertarian. At least in California, Larry Elder read a piece from the Calif. Libertarian leader (who says he was speaking for himself) who has totally distanced himself from the indefensible position of Harry Browne.