Iraq mission was founded on truth

The Australian ^ | 07/18/2003 | Michael Costello

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Yea we know, and those scuds he launched at Israel back in 91 was no threat to the Israelis either. He was just shootin off some celebratory fireworks which happened to fall in Israel. No harm intended.

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Seems to me the soviets and the demoncrats suffer from a long term memory loss. Does anyone besides me remember how Saddam launched scuds at Israel during the Gulf war? Was it his intent then to destroy the citizens of Israel with all that he had available to him?

My recollection is that we placed patriots in Israel to prevent his scuds from killing folks. Then Saddam gave it his best shot with all he had and failed. We made a peace agreement with him which included inspectors in Iraq to prevent him from acquiring WMDs. You know, to keep tabs on a tryant. But then, a little later, he threw the inspectors out and nothing was done about it til Bush saw the light after 911. Clinton didn't have the balls to do what needed to be done when the inspectors were thrown out. The UN didn't have the balls to do what needed to be done when the inspectors were thrown out. Only dubya had the balls to do what needed doin. And no, even he didn't grow them til after 911. But once he did, all hell broke loose and a monster reaping havoc upon the worlds' stage has been silenced...and soon to be slain if not already.

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I understand that you people are all patriots, and that you all support Bush. I still think that Bush's biggest intention there is to control the oil flow. Its all money.

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I understand that you people are all patriots, and that you all support Bush. I still think that Bush's biggest intention there is to control the oil flow. Its all money.

We paid a severe price on 911. As it turns out, in this case, the initiating WMDs amounted to a case of box cutters. All that aside, I don't associate control of oil with 911. Nor do I associate the march to Baghdad with the control of oil no more than I consider the fight in Chechnya to be about oil.

I am convinced that the removal of the tyrant in Baghdad was necessary...since had Saddam had the ability during the Gulf war, he would have been dropping those scuds on American soil as well as in Israel.

Was our involvement in Kuwait about oil? I believe it played a major role. However, preventing a tyrannical aggressor from invading his neighbors to control their oil fields had to be considered and was. As a result, Saddam and his bandits were sent home to lick their wounds. In the end, there was a condition for peace...that being among other things, UN inspectors in Iraq preventing Saddam from building WMDs. Subsequently, the tyrannt in defiance of the world thru them out and no one did a damn thing about it until now.

Will we now find WMDs? We know for fact Saddam had them because he used them on the Kurds and no one did a damn thing about that either til now.

Like we found the tyrannical sons, we will eventually find Saddam and his WMDs. At the same time, I believe it necessary to find Saddam for closure. But I don't believe it necessary to find WMDs to support what we did, although I remain convinced, based on the tyrannts history, they are there somewhere or have been shipped to a neighboring ally. Time will tell.