feuergnom 22 #1 November 7, 2003 i just wondered why nobody came up with this story from ny times – according to this article the iraqi regime wanted to avoid a war. i'm curious what us-citizens think about itThe universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wzettler 0 #2 November 7, 2003 Let me say that i don't ever want war and I am not a very political person. then I will say that i am not sure if i buy this story becasue it would seem much simpler to me that if the Iraqi govt wanted to talk peace in February why would they do it secretly? why would they try to do it through the CIA? Wouldn't it be easier for Saddam to just get on the TV (which i think he controlled) and say he wanted to talk whenever and wherever? As i said, i am not very political so maybe i am missing something and someome can fill me in... I think when Jesus said "love your enemy" he probably meant don't kill them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflydrew 0 #3 November 7, 2003 I read this also, but refrained from posting because people will immediatly bash the nytimes, or say something about liberals, or bring up Clinton, and never actually address the body of the text... I did however find the article very interesting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feuergnom 22 #4 November 7, 2003 my guess is that a lot of your questions are answerd in the story. there's so many sides to the whole thing that my heads staring to ache when i think about it. so there's a dictator in bagdad who play's hide & seek with the us govt. he's fallen from grace and no longer "our s.o.b.". (human rights never mattered and were never mentioned). so you turn on the war machinery and set a campain marching with the media drumming along and spread the "news" that he's got wmd. now that wagons just rolling along at full speed and that guy in iraq finally realises he doesn't stand a chance against the u.s. but you just can't blow off the whole military operation.... i _know_ it's not that simple (when was is ever?) - but what if this was a real attempt to prevent war and not another game? and the ny times is not foxnews... The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle dudeist skydiver # 666 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,454 #5 November 7, 2003 >according to this article the iraqi regime wanted to avoid a war. i'm >curious what us-citizens think about it I think that by that time, almost nothing could have stopped the rush to war, outside of perhaps Saddam, his sons, and all their top generals voluntarily checking themselves into Guantanamo Bay. I figure that the overture as described had an equal chance of being a real overture, a delaying tactic, or a myth made up by a hopeful businessman. In other words certainly worth pursuing but not enough to really believe in. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
