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And while I am prepared to accept that Saddam presents a real and immediate danger to others- upon proof- surely you can accept that there are grounds for scepticism on the US' motives to attack Iraq all of the sudden.
And why is it that the only "clean up" option Bush and those who support him can come up with is full scale invasion? Perhaps the real point is that Bush has failed our nation in so many other areas that he needs this invasion to divert the attentions of people like yourself from far more pressing issues.
Long live our wonderful spin factory.
those images were taken from the CNN archive of palestinians celebrating the liberation of kuwait in 1991 or somehitng like that. we have copies of the very same images in the BBC vaults somewhere or other... this really bothers me, people being manipulated by the media like that.
grr
Maybe that exact footage which you are referring to is from a different occasion, but celebrations did take place.
At the hands of their current leader and his government. Will thousands die? Hmmm...they didn't in 1991. Making some assumptions aren't you?
What would you suggest? Beg Saddam to please be nice?
Containment is no longer a workable strategy for a regime that has illustrated their willingness to use weapons of mass destruction and their willingness to sacrifice their people in their "cause". 9/11 and Bali should have illustrated to everyone that devices can be delivered anywhere in the world at anytime by anyone with the resources and the will.
Yes he does pose such a danger. If a rattlesnake den is next to your house, do you kill them one at a time or take out the whole nest. American public opinion supports military action so I don't really give a hoot what you think. Your PM is on the U.S. side, which means he has principles. Saddam will be disarmed. I also find it very amusing that when I say the whole Iraq problem is the U.S. fault and that we can fix it by removing Saddam you still say we should do nothing. You just want the world to ignore the problem and do nothing but talk and contain. That worked really well with Nazi Germany. Peace through appeasment is not an option.
Or maybe deliver a biological device against London, Seattle, or Brussels...
As Greeny is fond of asking, "you've spoken to every American have you?"
The polls do not actually suggest that. Not if it comes to unliateral invasion without UN approval.
Your fantasies are getting the better of you! lol.
Notwithstanding the fact that you now make the same sort of confusion of the issues as the media spin doctors, it's laughable that the might of our military is incapable of containing a battered pissant country like Iraq despite the fact that we contained the Soviet empire, it's WMD's, and its expansionist agenda for 40+ years.
Keep dreaming boys, youre progressively making this half rate despot, as tyrannical as everyone here undoubtedly agrees he is, into the worst monster the world has ever known, and it only makes you look like paranoid fools
You obviously know something we don't.
Thanks for posting this Globe.
Morrocan Roll here's a link to facts about the US via the CIA.
Ahh the 40+ years of containment was possible because of Mutual Assured Destruction. Neither side wanted to destroy the world. Saddam can't blow up the world. But killing everyone in London or New York or Paris, is in his realm of possibilities. If you can't see that for yourself you truly are an enemy of the American people (notice I didn't say government). It would be a tad late after 100,000 americans die. But you would say we deserved it.
Go sell your bullshit to the Billy Beer-swilling yokels whom you resemble so much.
Steel on target.
The clandestine-collaborator has proven himself to be the philosophical spawn of the Whore of Hanoi...
As I said before I will worry about threats today! Why did chamberlain sell out the Czechs in 38 and why didn't the French invade germany in 36. Man I wish I had that time machine, we could fix so many problems this politic forum would be blank.
And of course you being the best that our nation can produce. God help America if neanderthals like you become representative of the majority.
In years to come we'll be seeing who the "enemy of the people" is when your brand of "shoot first ask questions later" destabilises the geo-political situation further and increases the security risks for us all, at home or abroad.
Coming from you that is the most sincerest compliment I have ever recieved. First time I have ever seen you use profanity. You are crass in your conspiracy theories about 911. You insult the memory of almost 3,000 people who died on that day. So you get this loud and clear. Islamic fundementalists that hate america hijacked 4 civilian aircraft and flew them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Nothing that our foreign policy may have done justifies their act, NOTHING. Governments that harbour terrorism or support it will be dealt with (if through the U.N. great, if not well the Constitution of the United States is the highest power in the United States). If you are an American, I pity you for your ignorance.
Now now, I didn't call you names. You lose "cool points" when you digress to immature name calling. Makes you look like I hit the nail on the head and that you lost the point in the discussion. I told you in another thread that I would no longer respond to your posts, but you kind of insulted me so I had to tell you like I saw it. Its the "Cowboy in me".
Will not happen. Even during the Revolutionary War, those supporting breaking away from the tyrannical rule of the "good King George" were a distinct minority, and the most were parasites who prefered that ANYONE ELSE get their hands dirty doing the necessary job. Parasites find it more comfortable and convenient to demean them who ARE the line as "neanderthals" and "troglodytes".
Just like the issue of "heroes"...
Heroes are created in the minds of them mired within their own mediocrity, and are too gutless to do the thing required of them. It is easier to elevate an individual who has not been dis-empowered by his own cowardice to the position on a pedestal, rather than to objectively observe that it is more accurate that the hero-worshipper is groveling upon his belly, face in the slime of his own making.
It is your kind who speak of "heroism" and the "glory" of combat. Warriors? Observe that it was just a job which needed to be done.
So much easier to call us "neanderthals", than to admit your own cowardice, isn't it?
You define the disease which brings about the fall of empires, the degenerative cancer which eats away at it from within.
There is a cure for that cancer, don't you know?
Better you should stay within the European capital of Al Qaeda: the United States is a much healthier place in your absence.
Ho hum. Where is that ignore button. Darn they don't have one.
Oh you mean when I said that you only posted meaningless rhetoric, post after post and other folks on the board kind of jumped on the band wagon and called you on it. Sorry I hurt your credibility. Like I said before, Calls them as I see um pardner.
Keep right on blustering, as I said before, it does provide endless amounts of amusement for those of us less intellectually challenged.