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Old 12-15-2005, 09:24 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
All this administration has done is whack a hornets nest with a stick. Left alone, you *might* have gotten stung. Using the stick has pissed off the hornets and many that would have went about there business are now actively stinging the stick wielder.

Iraq was no threat to the US.
That was Clinton's logic about bin laden. He hadn't "done" anything to the US that would justify us arresting him when the sudan offered him up. Clinton figured to just let him be and *hopefully* we won't get stung. Well you know what? we did get stung. pretty bad too. And the context in which the arguement to go into iraq was in a post 9/11 era. Bush said we have to act BEFORE there is an imminent threat, because once the threat is imminent, it is already too late. We had suspicions and intelligence at the time that pointed toward saddam having WMDs and that he had the desire to, and perhaps, the capabilities to persue nuclear weapons. So we could have sat around and hoped we didn't get stung, all the while turning a blind eye to evil, letting the butcher continue to terrorize his own people and continue to fill mass graves whenever he wanted. Or we could take the risk, go to war, over throw him, ending any chance he may have had at arming terrorist groups with WMDs, and ending his reign of evil over the people of iraq.

Apparently you would rather him stay in power, continue to kill, rape, and rob his people, all the while planning on getting back at the US for stopping him 10 years earlier.

I think we need to go into iran too. Either that or someone with some nuts (Israel) needs to.
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