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I wonder if the knucklehead nine will do any "photo ops" to help their campaigns?
Chris
Well, in the spirit of name calling, is it true they're renaming that big 747 "AWOL One"
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
I said it.
What Clinton should or should not have done is irrelevant at this point. What any other President should or should not have done is also irrelevant. What GWB did is what is relevant. He sold you a bill of goods about Iraq being an imminent threat to the security of the continental US with hidden WMD's. Those pesky ones that were so well hidden we still can't find them. Americans also bought in to the implication that Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, was a major player in 9/11.
Has Saddam used WMD's in the past, yes. Weapons that we sold him when he was our buddy, that old 'enemy of my enemy' thing. Or weapons he made with technology we taught him to use.
Would he use them again in the future, yes, if he had time to make them but as long as the UN inspectors where chasing around it was pretty hard to start anything up.
Was/is Saddam a bad man, yes but I don't think he would have killed as many innocent Iraqis in the past six months as we have and I know there would be a lot more living Americans than there are now if we had not invaded a country that was not an threat to us. Now our intelligence community is saying we were tricked in to believing he had more stuff than he really did because either Saddam wanted to sound like the baddest guy on the block or we got bad data from defectors who didn't really know what they claimed to know.
I live in Texas and I saw what this man did to our economy and then he went right ahead and did the same thing to the rest of the country. The man is not a class act, Laura is but not him. He is a creation of Karl Rove and a group of talented handlers. Like all politicians of any party he cares about just one thing, himself.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
What Clinton should or should not have done is irrelevant at this point. What any other President should or should not have done is also irrelevant. What GWB did is what is relevant. He sold you a bill of goods about Iraq being an imminent threat to the security of the continental US with hidden WMD's. Those pesky ones that were so well hidden we still can't find them. Americans also bought in to the implication that Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, was a major player in 9/11.
Has Saddam used WMD's in the past, yes. Weapons that we sold him when he was our buddy, that old 'enemy of my enemy' thing. Or weapons he made with technology we taught him to use.
Would he use them again in the future, yes, if he had time to make them but as long as the UN inspectors where chasing around it was pretty hard to start anything up.
Was/is Saddam a bad man, yes but I don't think he would have killed as many innocent Iraqis in the past six months as we have and I know there would be a lot more living Americans than there are now if we had not invaded a country that was not an threat to us. Now our intelligence community is saying we were tricked in to believing he had more stuff than he really did because either Saddam wanted to sound like the baddest guy on the block or we got bad data from defectors who didn't really know what they claimed to know.
I live in Texas and I saw what this man did to our economy and then he went right ahead and did the same thing to the rest of the country. The man is not a class act, Laura is but not him. He is a creation of Karl Rove and a group of talented handlers. Like all politicians of any party he cares about just one thing, himself.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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QuoteThose pesky ones that were so well hidden we still can't find them. Americans also bought in to the implication that Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, was a major player in 9/11.
Do you recall not to long ago out forces finding an ENTIRE fighter wing buried in the sand? It's a big damned country. The weapons are there. I don't doubt it for a second.. If you think all of the Iraqi soldiers had gas masks in their fighting holes because they feared us using WMD's you are jokingly mistaken..
Rhino
QuoteQuoteThose pesky ones that were so well hidden we still can't find them. Americans also bought in to the implication that Iraq, not Saudi Arabia, was a major player in 9/11.
Do you recall not to long ago out forces finding an ENTIRE fighter wing buried in the sand?
Hadn't heard that one, can you point me at some articles about it?
QuoteIf you think all of the Iraqi soldiers had gas masks in their fighting holes because they feared us using WMD's you are jokingly mistaken..
During my time in the military, nearly 10 years between active and reserve, whenever we were in an exercise (i.e. practicing war) we always had our gas masks with us. You don't ever know what the other guy might do. And yes I think that they thought we would do anything. All the information the rank and file Iraqi soldier has comes from Saddam and he wasn't going to talk about how we would play fair.
You may have answered this elsewhere but I missed it. Have you ever been in the military?
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I wonder if the knucklehead nine will do any "photo ops" to help their campaigns?
Chris
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