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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/14/07 17:17
ay beecee wrote:
> As a programmer, you might be exptected to
> associate these events in a more logical way.
>
> Sure, Saddam was a bad guy.
> And yes, we were attacked by muslim extremists.
> But Saddam was not the only bad guy in the
> world, and was not in cahoots with Al Queda.
> He did not attack us. There was no Al Queda in
> Iraq until after the war started.
>
Yep, and every major intelligence agency in the world though Saddam had
WMD's - not just the U.S. and Britain, but Russia, France, Germany,
Japan... And that he was not only going to use them against his own
people, he was going to provide them to terrorists to destroy the
western world. He hated us as much as Al Queda does.
> We had a golden opportunity to kick ass in Afganistan,
> rebuild a country and make some allies. But we scewed
> it up bigtime. We gave Osama his best christmas present
> possible: the world's greatest recruiting tool,
> wrapped in an impossible-to-win civil war.
>
Sure, and we did it. We didn't screw it up. We got rid of the Taliban
(something which came about because the USSR pulled out of Afghanistan
without completing the job) and got a much better government installed.
Sure, there are still some pockets of resistance - you can expect that
in a country as remote and rugged as Afghanistan, where warlords are
used to not having to answer to anyone, and have been attacking each
other for centuries. But overall it's much more peaceful than before.
> Bush is a moron. The only remaining excuse for
> starting this war (they've changed motivations a
> half a dozen times now) is nation building. By
> creating a land-of-milk-and-honey democracy in
> Iraq, we will indirectly defeat Al Queda. That's
> nation building, which Bush promised we would not do.
>
Bush finally said "Enough is Enough!". And after defeating a mass
murderer, it's our responsibility to help the people of Iraq rebuild.
Note I said "Help the people of Iraq rebuild". That's just what we're
doing. We're not installing a puppet government. And by taking yet
another haven away from the terrorists, we are defeating them.
And yes, the motivation has changed. I disagree. Rather, the objective
has changed. And that's normal. When you accomplish one objective, you
look at the next one.
> And it's a building construction project with little
> hope of success. We might be stuck with it now,
> whether we like it or not. But it's important to remember
> the fools who got us into this mess in the first place.
>
>
The difference is - we are succeeding in Iraq.
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