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host · 10-07-2004, 10:53 AM

1066 dead young Americans.....and counting,,,,,,,7000 more seriously wounded,
maimed, a U.S. president who has lost all credibility in the world community,
and among at least half the voters in this country, with more to follow as
they are personally affected by losing of a loved one in Iraq, or by loss of their
own civil rights, and by the damage to the value of our currency and our treasury. Yup....Cheney is right to declare the weapon's inspector report a victory today, what other choice do he and Bush have, since they refuse to
admit the truth ! <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041007_816.html">http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041007_816.html</a>

Of course, if Bush had not taken the bold and now completely justified step
(according to Cheney and Bush, and some who are already posting it here..) of going to war against Iraq, our government, believing that Saddam was the
greatest threat to our security, would have caved in to attempts to lift the
U.N. sanctions, ended the no-fly-zone enforcement flights that our military
and the U.K. had been flying for 12 years, discounted our ability to use
satellite surveillance in Iraq, abandoned other efforts to gather intelligence
on Iraq, or monitor it's attempts to obtain materials to build weapons, and
woken up one day, sometime in the future, to the shocking news that Saddam's Iraq was bristling with new WMD's. On the other hand, as Hans
Blix said today, if the U.S. had granted his request for more time to complete
the 2003 U.N. weapons inspection, the original excuse for Bush's invasion
would have been exposed for the factless rhetoric that it was.

Are "what ifs" and "maybes" enough justification for you to lose a son or
daughter in an unnecessary war ? It seems to me that the lives of other
Americans' children are cheapened by thoughtless loyalty to a failed and
now discredited president and his bluster. How dare anyone try to justify
the loss of 1066 of our brave volunteers to a reason that now has been
reduced to some future "might or maybe" failure of U.S. intelligence gathering,
diplomacy, or the threat of our use of military force to contain a result of
a future agressive policy of Saddam ? I grieve for my dead and wounded
countrymen, and those Iraqi innocents, and the dangerous, myopic view of
too many of my fellow citizens !

10-07-2004, 10:53 AM	#8 (permalink)
host Banned	1066 dead young Americans.....and counting,,,,,,,7000 more seriously wounded, maimed, a U.S. president who has lost all credibility in the world community, and among at least half the voters in this country, with more to follow as they are personally affected by losing of a loved one in Iraq, or by loss of their own civil rights, and by the damage to the value of our currency and our treasury. Yup....Cheney is right to declare the weapon's inspector report a victory today, what other choice do he and Bush have, since they refuse to admit the truth ! <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041007_816.html">http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20041007_816.html</a> Of course, if Bush had not taken the bold and now completely justified step (according to Cheney and Bush, and some who are already posting it here..) of going to war against Iraq, our government, believing that Saddam was the greatest threat to our security, would have caved in to attempts to lift the U.N. sanctions, ended the no-fly-zone enforcement flights that our military and the U.K. had been flying for 12 years, discounted our ability to use satellite surveillance in Iraq, abandoned other efforts to gather intelligence on Iraq, or monitor it's attempts to obtain materials to build weapons, and woken up one day, sometime in the future, to the shocking news that Saddam's Iraq was bristling with new WMD's. On the other hand, as Hans Blix said today, if the U.S. had granted his request for more time to complete the 2003 U.N. weapons inspection, the original excuse for Bush's invasion would have been exposed for the factless rhetoric that it was. Are "what ifs" and "maybes" enough justification for you to lose a son or daughter in an unnecessary war ? It seems to me that the lives of other Americans' children are cheapened by thoughtless loyalty to a failed and now discredited president and his bluster. How dare anyone try to justify the loss of 1066 of our brave volunteers to a reason that now has been reduced to some future "might or maybe" failure of U.S. intelligence gathering, diplomacy, or the threat of our use of military force to contain a result of a future agressive policy of Saddam ? I grieve for my dead and wounded countrymen, and those Iraqi innocents, and the dangerous, myopic view of too many of my fellow citizens !