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powerclown · 01-20-2004, 01:35 PM

I see the point (and importance) of the US flexing its muscles and teaching a lesson to those who would wish it harm. But take over a country? As the current world 'superpower' (for now), its just human nature for lunatics around the world to want to challenge the champion.

So now theyre all going to want a piece of the US. They've set a target. A rallying cry for the enemy. Bush has made it crystal clear to all the malcontents, the radicals, the fundamentalists, the dictators, foreign armies, clandestine bomb makers, hostile scientists, resentful professors, scheming foreign politicians, made it clear to these and all the others lurking in the shadows, who to focus their anger upon. The US, our interests worldwide, and our Allies worldwide. Not saying that the US can't handle this, can't infiltrate it or otherwise de-fuse it, but thats what were going to find out in the coming years.

I also have concerns that the US (CIA, FBI, Government contractors, the Military, whoever) might be laying down a hidden infrastructure in Iraq. A police system or culture, or a spy network of some kind to guard their interests after the armed forces leave and the Iraqis return to power. After all the trouble they went to in ousting Hussein, and rebuilding the infrastructure of THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, will the US risk handing over control of their own handiwork to a hostile enemy?

And where does it go from here? Do we invade, take over by force, and rebuild from the ground up other countries hostile to us?

01-20-2004, 01:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
powerclown Junkie Location: Detroit, MI	I see the point (and importance) of the US flexing its muscles and teaching a lesson to those who would wish it harm. But take over a country? As the current world 'superpower' (for now), its just human nature for lunatics around the world to want to challenge the champion. So now theyre all going to want a piece of the US. They've set a target. A rallying cry for the enemy. Bush has made it crystal clear to all the malcontents, the radicals, the fundamentalists, the dictators, foreign armies, clandestine bomb makers, hostile scientists, resentful professors, scheming foreign politicians, made it clear to these and all the others lurking in the shadows, who to focus their anger upon. The US, our interests worldwide, and our Allies worldwide. Not saying that the US can't handle this, can't infiltrate it or otherwise de-fuse it, but thats what were going to find out in the coming years. I also have concerns that the US (CIA, FBI, Government contractors, the Military, whoever) might be laying down a hidden infrastructure in Iraq. A police system or culture, or a spy network of some kind to guard their interests after the armed forces leave and the Iraqis return to power. After all the trouble they went to in ousting Hussein, and rebuilding the infrastructure of THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, will the US risk handing over control of their own handiwork to a hostile enemy? And where does it go from here? Do we invade, take over by force, and rebuild from the ground up other countries hostile to us?