Full Version: The Long March to the Iraqi Frontier
Who buys into that [B]BULL[B] that the attack on Iraq will start a WWII type situation where we become embroiled in continental conflict? Anybody? Lemme have a debate, Goddammit.
Iraq will last two minutes if we do it right, (no I don’t mean nuclear weapons) but if GB 41 would have finished the job it would only have been another day or two of fighting. WWIII I doubt, but is it going to happen? Id put money on it.
Is it just me or does this whole US-Iraq chest-butting seem kind of bogus? I can't back this one up, so I'll chalk it up as a hunch.
It's very surreal to me. It's like we just loved the Cold War so much that we decided to rehash the whole thing - this time with Iraq in the place of Russia.
Am I totally off base?
It's very surreal to me. It's like we just loved the Cold War so much that we decided to rehash the whole thing - this time with Iraq in the place of Russia.
Am I totally off base?
Sorry but for this one I do think your off base. Unlike against Russia we know Saddam has no respect for his people. Russia didn’t want a nuke dropped on his people, so he never dropped one on us. Saddam doesn’t care, his life’s goal which he published, is to wage war on the Jews and Americans. Now that doesn’t sound like a very nice guy…especially to run a country that A) has oil and 
had weapons of mass destruction.
had weapons of mass destruction.
Unlike Russia?!? Explain Stalin.
You are right, Russia had its mad men. And i think we could of saved alot of lives if we took him out when we had the chance.
In a 1997 column titled "Why the U.S. Won't Go to War," Michael Kelly observed that in the waning days of the Gulf War, he was so shocked by the images of slaughtered Iraqi Republican Guardsmen retreating to Baghdad that he, like many Americans, instantly was convinced that the war had to end. Five years on, with Saddam still in power and working on weapons of mass destruction, Kelly realized that he had been wrong, that it was the far better thing to kill even more Iraqi soldiers, and remove the dictator. A 1995 stint covering the war in Bosnia, observing how an outgunned and outmanned group of Bosnians in Bihac saved their lives by savagely holding off Serbian invaders, taught him a valuable lesson about courage, and the lack of it in contemporary American culture.
"We are a nation in which there are fewer and fewer people, and they are older and older people, who accept what every 12-year-old in Bihac knows: that there are things worth dying for, and killing for," Kelly wrote.
Five years have passed since then, and Saddam is still there, stockpiling and likely weaponizing anthrax, cholera, and botulinum toxin, a concentrated pound of which can kill a billion people. Can you sleep knowing what that madman is brewing for you in his desert cauldrons? Can you live with the thought that Arab Muslim terrorists will carry out another September 11-like attack on America? You couldn't if you'd gone through it.
In a 1997 column titled "Why the U.S. Won't Go to War," Michael Kelly observed that in the waning days of the Gulf War, he was so shocked by the images of slaughtered Iraqi Republican Guardsmen retreating to Baghdad that he, like many Americans, instantly was convinced that the war had to end. Five years on, with Saddam still in power and working on weapons of mass destruction, Kelly realized that he had been wrong, that it was the far better thing to kill even more Iraqi soldiers, and remove the dictator. A 1995 stint covering the war in Bosnia, observing how an outgunned and outmanned group of Bosnians in Bihac saved their lives by savagely holding off Serbian invaders, taught him a valuable lesson about courage, and the lack of it in contemporary American culture.
"We are a nation in which there are fewer and fewer people, and they are older and older people, who accept what every 12-year-old in Bihac knows: that there are things worth dying for, and killing for," Kelly wrote.
Five years have passed since then, and Saddam is still there, stockpiling and likely weaponizing anthrax, cholera, and botulinum toxin, a concentrated pound of which can kill a billion people. Can you sleep knowing what that madman is brewing for you in his desert cauldrons? Can you live with the thought that Arab Muslim terrorists will carry out another September 11-like attack on America? You couldn't if you'd gone through it.
[QUOTE]he was so shocked by the images of slaughtered Iraqi Republican Guardsmen retreating to Baghdad that he, like many Americans, instantly was convinced that the war had to end. [QUOTE]
Plato once said, "Only the dead have seen the end of war." How true.
Plato once said, "Only the dead have seen the end of war." How true.
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