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Originally posted by RedWhiteandBlood
They are better oppurtunities for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and ANWAR. Yet they didn't pursue this. Why?
Originally posted by Jedi_Master
Litle is not alone in that distinction. Between the time Saddam Hussein boosted his bonus payments to the families of Palestinian terrorists and the March 20, 2003 launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 28 homicide bombers injured 1,209 people and killed 223 more, including at least eight Americans. These bonus checks were handed out at ceremonies where banners proclaimed the friendship of the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein.
Nevermind that your president's best friends the Saudis did exactly the same thing and paid thousands of dollars to the families of suicide bombers. By the way, that is just moral support for the Palestinian cause, it doesn't buy terrorists any weapons, ammo, or explosives as by the time their families get it, they are DEAD.
Originally posted by Tinkleflower
Once more we're seeing how one man's terrorist (in as much as the allegations of Saddam financially supporting Palestian fighters) is another man's freedom fighter.
I can't see myself surrendering everything to a militarily superior invader I perceive to be a mortal enemy. I would exhaust every option before I gave up.
Originally posted by danwild6
Passer By just what are you suggesting, that we either fight every nasty government in the region at once or are you suggesting that we just throw our hands up and say the world sucks and there's nothing we could or should do about it. Now I know people on this site believe all things are equal but I have info for you in the real world things are not equal and never have been or never will be. Yes we support the Saudi's why because they sell us oil but we also support the Israeli's why because they are an outpost of democracy in a region dominated by tyranny. Now here I believe is the way things hopefully will go in the Mid East eventually the Iraqi people will eventually as they beginning to do now govern themselves and this may take some imagination on your part but just try to imagine a mid east where democracy has taken hood this enables not only the United States but also the new free Iraq to take a stronger approach to the Saudi's and the region as a whole don't you think there is a better chance with saddam gone and a democratic Iraq for the entire region to progress towards democratic government?
[edit on 19-6-2005 by danwild6]
Originally posted by Passer By
Now, either way - let me ask you why did America go into Iraq. Honestly. From the very being of your being are you telling me with all the evidense that has shown since the first war drums were beaten that you beleive what was done there had anything to do with freedom or democracy?
Originally posted by danwild6
It is about bringing the rule of law to the mid east in a similar way we brought it to europe and japan at the end of the second world war.....you may question the motives for the war and you have every right to but ultimately and Bush knows that success will only come when the last US troops leave Iraq with a free and democratic government.
I find it amusing that people actually belive that their government actually cares about other countries well-being, without a alterior motive.
I've asked people do they actually give a hoot about Iraqi's or Iraq
Originally posted by RedWhiteandBlood
Your ideas have been very lame on the subject of how to defeat Islamic Terrorism. So far, here is what you've presented. I am going to go through each one, and with logic defeat it.
You cannot force a democracy, not least on a culture so different from ours that westerners cannot understand.
Let the people decide