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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 06:16:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
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.

And what was Afghanistan? Will invading Iraq be any more decisive?

ROSCO



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  Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
 
(...) Can you elaborate on that? Although we haven't won the peace yet, that war was won pretty decisively, contrary to what the naysayers predicted. (21 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
 
(...) What the heck are you talking about? Unlike World War 2 we (any "Western" country) do not carpet bomb cities anymore. The big Tomahawk cruise missles are accurate to within half a meter, let alone the smaller missles. Civilian casualties would (...) (21 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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