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JJohnson

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Yeah, and that's what's really stupid about this whole escalation. Don't call me a tree-huggin' hippy or anything, but do that many people really need to die (on both sides) because we *think* he *might* have WMD and *might* use them?



He has used them. He has used them on his own people. He continues to test them on his own people, as outlined by Powell's speech on Wednesday.
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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>and potentially 100 times more powerful than Hitler ever was.

That's like saying Castro was 100 times more powerful than Hitler was, which is nonsense. Sure, he's an evil communistic dictator who hates (or at least hated) the US, and is guilty of all sorts of human rights violations, but he's impotent. So is Hussein. He's the dictator of a little tinpot country.



You aren't reading me. Look at the difference in weapons. Deadliness? Chemical? Biological? Eventually Nukes? Modern day weapons would make Saddham 1000 times more lethal than Hitler..

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Damn right. We have the responsibility to act like a leader and not a schoolyard bully.



I believe we are,. A year ago when those buildings fell people were focused. They realized EVEN THEN that Saddham is part of the so called AXIS OF EVIL. The only thing that has changed is people are losing focus on the task at hand.

I am glad Bush is sticking to his guns..

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>Do I personally think nukes should be used under ANY circumstance?
> No freakin way!! But I'm not the man in charge.

I almost wish you were . . . we have a new doctrine that says that nukes can now be used during 'suprising military developments' not just for retaliation for a CBN attack. I think this comes partly from our new limited-yield penetrator weapons that can be used like conventional weapons; I guess they figure 'why not use em? We got em. They're not tha tbig."

And if we do ever use them (god forbid) we will have given North Korea another example of how to get what _they_ want.

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do whatever you think is right and leave us alone." If we both learn that lesson (the US and its neighbors throughout the world) then we will see a lot less terrorism, death and destruction



Ill seccond that,but you still having a guy who kill his own people,and they cant see its wrong,or better they migth be too afraid to say..

We just have to rember to help the people of Irak afther we have won the war..If we dont show them that the world is better whith out S.Hussin then we lose the war..

Stay safe
Stefan Faber

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The War should be to realese the people of Irak for the leaders that dictate the cuntry by now.Not for oil or mony.



That may well be a by-product of the conflict: Freeing the people of the regime and ensuring economic security of the oil reserves (which, by the way, benefits everyone, including the French, Germans and Russians).
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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I almost wish you were . . . we have a new doctrine that says that nukes can now be used during 'suprising military developments' not just for retaliation for a CBN attack. I think this comes partly from our new limited-yield penetrator weapons that can be used like conventional weapons; I guess they figure 'why not use em? We got em. They're not tha tbig."



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>He has used them.

So have we.

>He has used them on his own people.

I agree. This makes him incredibly evil; it does not make him a threat to us. North Korea, China (and the US) has many, many times the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons that Hussein has - and they have delivery systems that could threaten us. Hussein does not.

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and potentially 100 times more powerful than Hitler ever was.
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Look at the difference in weapons. Deadliness? Chemical? Biological? Eventually Nukes? Modern day weapons would make Saddham 1000 times more lethal than Hitler..



Saddam Hussein couldn't even win the Iran/Iraq war. Do you think he can sweep through the middle east the way Hitler did Europe? He had modern day weapons in 1989, at the end of the Iran/Iraq war, so it seems a little specious to argue that he's 100 times more powerful than Hitler when he couldn't win a border from Iran.

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At some point the violence has to end..very true. If the U.S. doesn't finish the situation I don't think it will end. We leave and Saddam will do something again.
Saddam is worse than Hitler. Hitler did not have Bio weapons. Those scare me more than nukes. Any numbnuts can smuggle a bio weapon into the U.S. with little real effort. Castro didn't have anything compared to Mr. Hussein. Iraq'a army was also te 5th largest in world 12 years ago. What did Castro have? 3 life rafts, an ATV and a helicopter? We all knew the only threat Castro posed was as a launching platform for the Soviets.
And I got to think that he is fronting, supporting, funding terrorists against us in some role. More so than Pat Robertson to be sure. If I recall correctly, was there not also rumor/evidence that the Saudi's were backing terrorists also?
At this point I don't think we are acting the bully. We have not demanded anything unreasonable.
What wrong were the terrorist righting by the WTC stunt?? I understand the message you are saying, and I agree. Violence should not be the first resort but the last. But I still don't see any other options.
We have talked and talked about this numbnuts for 10 years. No changes. To say that there is no connection between the Middle East governements and terrorism (yes all of them, whether they profess to be our allies or not) is like saying there is no connection between cold and snow.
Our governement has another responsibility and that is to protect us from letting this get more out of hand than it already has gotten. If strategic bombing is better, cool. If another 5 days of inspectors does the trick, cool. But giving the whack jobs another few years?? Not cool.
How much more time do you think we should give negotitions and inspectors? Until Iraq makes the first move against us?
There is some truth to the saying: peace through superiour firepower. Once everybody has the ability to destroy each other it is just a matter of waiting for a clear shot so you can get away with it.
The U.S. has had the power to wipe out anybody for a long time. But we have not used it. I think getting a little saftey margin by keeping the radicals from getting better armed is a good thing.
Here is something else I don't understand. They call us the Great Satan. Why? Are we not paying enough for the oil?
JJ

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>He has used them.

So have we.



We've done this dance before Bill. Saddam was doing so save his own hyde, without regard to his populace. We were doing the same under the auspices of war, and saving millions of American GIs, and ultimately millions of Japanese servicemen. There is no comparison.

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>He has used them on his own people.

I agree. This makes him incredibly evil; it does not make him a threat to us. North Korea, China (and the US) has many, many times the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons that Hussein has - and they have delivery systems that could threaten us. Hussein does not.



By Hussein's financial support of organizations like Hamas, he can threaten our critical interests (i.e. Israel, Turkey, Jordan) in the area. That impacts life over here, an unfortanate fact. Through his support of these organizations, they can use their own delivery systems (human) to do harm here. Saddam doesn't need an ICBM if he has these organizations (maybe including Al-Qaeda, albeit their (Iraq/A-Q) visions are not mutual) primed to carry out an attack.

As far as DPRK is concerned (I've never read/heard of any assessment of their chem/bio capability), China does not want DPRK to have nukes any more than us. ROK is peeing its pants and Japan would certainly find a way to interpret its constitution to defend itself pre-emptively if it needed to. The difference is that there is no massive division on the policy in DPRK for the interested parties. China, Japan, ROK and the US are on the same page - DPRK must not acquire full first-strike capability. I think China might surprise us if a conflict were to break out there -- they don't possess the paranoia they once had in the 50s.
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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How close do you think North Korea are to have a nuke?Im sure they have before Irak is out of the picture,and then..You dont think theyll defend them self?Rember Vietnam,they know their land.It will be one big caos...



Very close if they don't have something already. Defend themselves? I don't think an extensive war (WW3) would result from destoying all the nuclear capability that they have. They are a poor country with an abusive leader that many would not be willing to fight for. Regime change would like be an improvement for the people of N Korea.

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Why should they,they dont make the rumbel in the forest,US does...


That's because a few of them rely on the U.S. to do it for them. If we walk away maybe some of them will step up, or they'll be asking us for help again.

Personally I think we shouldn't attack N. Korea or Iraq without the support of the majority on the U.N. Sure we could defeat them easily with the right choice of weapons. It's the fire that we fuel in the hearts of other countries and people that will be the bigger problem for the U.S. if we don't have the support of our allies and respect of our neighbors on this planet.

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No we did not punish a country for the act itself, we dropped bombs looking for Osama Bin nut case. ANd we toppled a government that supported. Knocking off Hussien is no different. A war against terroroism is stupid. It's a war against bullshit ideals. Hunting Bin Laden is a criminal case because he claims no country. He won't be caught until anyone harboring is afraid enough to turn him over.

And where am I saying killing tens of thousands?? I'll take whatever course of action saves U.S. lives the most and protects our civilians from radical ruthless dickheads. How many Iraq soldiers and civilains did we kill 12 years ago? Obviously a couple too few or we would not be here again today.

Invading Kuwait was one. Not abiding to the terms of surrender is two. He is on three now.

The U.S. is not a war mongering country. We are pretty damn patient with threats to us. But our own welfare is our prime job.
JJ

"Call me Darth Balls"

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>Saddam is worse than Hitler. Hitler did not have Bio weapons. Those
> scare me more than nukes.

Why? We killed 350,000 with nukes; an anthrax attack on the US recently killed around 5. And it was from a US source!

>More so than Pat Robertson to be sure.

Pat Robertson gave 15 million to Charles Taylor, the dictator of Liberia, who provided sanctuary for Al Quaeda before and after 9/11.

>If I recall correctly, was there not also rumor/evidence that the
> Saudi's were backing terrorists also?

Most of the 9/11 terrorists WERE saudis, and there has been plenty of money traced from the saud family to Al Quaeda via various channels (i.e. someone's sister sends money to someone's brother etc.)

>At this point I don't think we are acting the bully.

Up until this point, I agree. And as long as we proceed with inspections, which we agreed to when we brought the matter up to the UN, then we're doing exactly the right thing, I believe.

>Any numbnuts can smuggle a bio weapon into the U.S. with little real effort.


Yes. In the future, we should concentrate on not creating more terrorists, rather than invading other countries that are unrelated to the single most deadly terrorist attack in US history. Do you honestly believe that Hussein is a bigger threat to US security than Bin Laden? Or North Korea, who is making nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and has told us they're not afraid to use them?

>How much more time do you think we should give negotitions and
> inspectors? Until Iraq makes the first move against us?

Until they are disarmed. Yes, even if it takes 10 years. It's better to take 10 years to disarm someone and not kill anyone than take 60 days and kill 50,000. Even if it's not as cool.

>Here is something else I don't understand. They call us the Great
> Satan. Why? Are we not paying enough for the oil?

Because we kill them and their families. Pretty simple really. I think that, if Chinese jets bombed the US regularly, and had killed some of your friends, you'd hate the Chinese too. And, like us, the Chinese would sit at home and say "those americans have this unreasoning hatred towards us, for no good reason. They must be evil madmen."

Most americans cannot conceive of being on the receiving end of a projection of power, though, which is too bad.

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>And where am I saying killing tens of thousands??

If you call for war and think that it will not involve mass killings you are unclear as to the concept of war.

>How many Iraq soldiers and civilains did we kill 12 years ago?

Around 100,000.

>Obviously a couple too few or we would not be here again today.

Ah, so hopefully we can kill, say, a quarter million this time? Will that end it? And then of course we'll have to kill everyone who hates us for killing their families. There are around 24 million civilians in Iraq. Would half of them be enough to "do a good job?"

>The U.S. is not a war mongering country.

Then we should stop using war, and preemptive strikes, as a replacement for diplomacy. Warmongering is as warmongering does.

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The few we missed are Saddam and his ruling tribe, perhaps my sarcasm was not clear.
If we target him, we can spare quite a few. Maybe keep it under tens of thousands.
However, the worst wars we have ever been involved in were screwed up by diplomats and dimplomacy. Once the armed forces are unleashed, don't strangle them like we always do and prevent them from finishing what has begun. We have a history of that.
JJ

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Anthrax is the least of our worries. And yes it was of a U.S. source. The ingredients for bio weapons can be had pretty easily.
What Saddam has access to could wipe out way more than 350,000. And be a lot easier to use on us than a nuke.

Pat Robertson did not give the cash over to be used against us. More of that good intentions shit.

Saddam, you can rest assured intends on the money he spends being used against us. Saddam is a bigger threat to us than Bin Laden. Saddam is a bigger source of potential attack than Bin Laden. He has more resources.

I goota go...more on this later.......
JJ

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>Once the armed forces are unleashed, don't strangle them like we
> always do and prevent them from finishing what has begun. We
> have a history of that.

Right, but they are 'strangled' by people saying:

"we can spare quite a few. Maybe keep it under tens of thousands."

If you want a war, you kill as many as possible and destroy as much as possible. That's what war is - mass killing. That's what it's always been. Hoping that it will be a nice clean war is self-delusion, and hoping we only kill bad guys is a hollywood fantasy. Make sure that what we desire is so important that you are willing to condone the mass slaughter of 13 year old girls, pregnant women, 70 year old men and whole families who hate Hussein as much as you do. Once you're OK with that, war makes sense.

To me, that is so bad and so evil that it is only a last resort when everything else fails. And everything else has not failed yet; we are still looking at options. Is it somewhat risky to wait? Yes, because people may die if he tries something in the meantime. But the war alternative is a way to guarantee that tens of thousands die, and that's a fool's bargain.

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>What Saddam has access to could wipe out way more than 350,000.
>And be a lot easier to use on us than a nuke.

Ask yourself which is the greater threat - a man who cannot move out of his country, a man who knows that he will be utterly destroyed if any trace of a terrorist activity is shown to be his doing, or a man who has proven he can take out buildings, who can evade the best the US can throw at him, and who is completely invisible?

>Saddam is a bigger threat to us than Bin Laden.

Which 2500 did Hussein kill? Or are you just afraid he will maybe perhaps will kill that many if he has 20 years, no oversight, a good weapons programs and a lot more US assistance? And how many do you think a North Korean 150 kiloton bomb in LA would kill?

Saddam is a threat to the US, but in terms of magnitude, he doesn't even make the top 5.

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>We just have to rember to help the people of Irak afther we have won the war..

I hope we do, but I have a feeling we wil forget them as quickly as we have forgotten the people of Afghanistan.



Where do you get your news Bill? We just lost four servicemen in Afghanistan. Our forces are protecting the leadership in Kabul. People are in school again. Radios are playing music again. We are reestablishing the Afghan currency. It was this new layer of somewhat-stability (I know, it's not stable) that allowed the plans for the oil pipeline to move forward (which by the way, Unocal is not a part of). This creates jobs, which fosters peace, fostering greater stability.

I am fully aware that life is not perfect. However based on the information us mere mortals have access to, where exactly have we forgotten?
So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

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>Where do you get your news Bill? We just lost four servicemen in
> Afghanistan. Our forces are protecting the leadership in Kabul.

Yes, we still have a military presence there, and there will be fighting for quite some time. But to think that we have 'liberated' the country makes no sense; we've barely 'liberated' the capital. Most of the country is still under control of local warlords, and women still get acid thrown in their faces if they're seen without a burqua. (story here.)

>People are in school again. Radios are playing music again

"But there are no women singers on radio, and musicians talk of beatings when they play."

"There has been opposition to girls' schooling. Schools in two provinces have been rocketed and burnt - and night letters delivered to warn teachers of giving instruction to girls."

"Outside the capital, private militias impose the will of powerbrokers, in contradiction of the wishes of the central government, and the president."

"These men do their masters' work, by looting, imposing duties on trade, and 'protecting' and taxing the people. "

Are things better than they were? For some (i.e. those in Kabul) certainly. But the popular image of a country that we quickly liberated, so that people could show their faces, play music and see women in school is largely a fantasy. Time will tell if we keep trying to make this a better place, but I have a feeling we will simply hurtle into the next crisis, and the one after that, without a glance backwards at that place. We will have more important people to kill.

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Saddam Hussein couldn't even win the Iran/Iraq war



Believe me.. At the rate he was building his weapons program he would have used WMD's more and won.. Why do you think he sought themto begin with? To start killing Kurds? Kurds are Iranians mostly..

And I didn't say he IS 100 times more powerful I said if allowed to continue he will perfect the making and the delivery methods of WMD's and THEM he will be AT LEAST 100 times the danger Hitler EVER was..

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