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Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
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Fri, 14 Mar 2003 05:58:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:

> > So I have to ask, "Who would this war be good for?  Who would benefit from
> > this war?"
> 
> The people currently living in Iraq. You know the people that are executed for
> questioning Saddam.  Or how about some of his troops that would likely
> surrender because US Prisoners are fed and treated better than Iraqi soliders.
> Thats what happened in 1990-1991.  Of course then their families were executed
> for betrayal so maybe we should eliminate Saddam's ability to do that first.
> 
> I keep seeing the sign: "No war in Iraq, Save the Iraqi Children." So what is
> it; "No war in Iraq" or "Save the Iraqi Children."?  I mean people how can
> people be so delusional to think that Saddam will magically chage his ways
> without a strong show of force.  Saddam and Al-queda probably do not have any
> formal ties but the both share one common belief.  The "Western Powers" will
> be too "soft" and "weak" to challenge them. A quick decisive victory would not
> embolded Al-Queda, it would scare the crap out of them.  Osama Bin Laden,
> according to his own writings did not belive the US would do anything after
> the Trade Center attacks. Thats because we did nothing after many attacks
> against targets all over the globe, that claimed nearly a thousand lives, over
> the ten years preceeding the attacks. We were a "paper tiger." War Sucks. Ok?
> War Sucks. We all know that. What we seem to be disagreeing on is that doing
> nothing is worse. Diplomacy only works when the other side wants it too and
> Saddam has proven time and again that diplomacy is merely a joke to him.

You are spot on, Mike!  Terrorists fear strength and feed on weakness, not the
other way around.  God, why is this concept so friggin' hard to understand??
People say "if we attack Iraq, we will be bringing more terrorist attacks upon
ourselves!"  B as in B, S as in S!  THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY! WAKE UP!
Unless we kill them first.

OBL (and SH for that matter) has made a critical error in his assessment of US
resolve-- the lesson of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor went unheeded.  Thank
God *we* learned the lesson of Chamberlain in pre-WWII.

Wahabi Islamic Fascism is here, folks.  The sooner we confront it, the sooner
it will be expunged from the earth.  And then the world *will* be a safer
place-- for the West AND the Muslim World.

JOHN



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