Island, my friend, I haven't missed any point. To your benefit, and I've said this before, you're reasons for wanting to invade Iraq are better reasons than the actual ones. I still wouldn't agree w/ the decision, but I respect your reasons.
The latest out of Washington is that we were possibly "duped" by Iraqi exiles on WMD info; in other words, the Bush administration placed more value on questionable intelligence from people w/ an
extremely vested interest in us removing Saddam Hussein, than other more legitimate sources who called the evidence (of all of the chem agents refered to by Bush in State of the Union speech) inconclusive or worse. Now, why on earth would Iraqi exiles who have been chomping on the bit to return to power for decades have any reason to lie??
And just to remind everyone, Iraq
never had a cease fire agreement with us alone, or any agreement separate from the agreements that it signed with the U.N. Pesky details, I know, but they add up to an illegal war, especially when you throw in trumped up evidence/excuses for invading. And as Aurel correctly points out, not a very well planned war, was it?
If I was the parent of a dead or mutilated soldier, I would want Bush and company's heads on a platter. Where is the outrage? Clinton messes w/ an overweight intern, (and I'll agree that makes him an assclown, alright?), and he gets impeached! Bush stages a first-strike war unilatterally w/o the U.N. based on false evidence, and thousands are dead. $$Billions have been flushed and it looks worse by the week. The American people have been subject an ether attack or something, I don't understand the gullibility of supporters of this administration.
And Pete Pranger, it was not my intention to insult you. I simply meant that your type cannot be argued with; there is truly no amount of contrary information that will change your mind. What do we need, 50% unemployment and no more airline industry+ 100 U.S. deaths a day in Iraq before you reconsider? I do not want to know the threshold, you don't have to answer that. And I like Camaros as much as the next guy.
Lastly, Tabs. It is a "fact" that CNN showed the dead soldier in Mogidishu. Surely you do not mean to imply that all of your statements following this are facts? They are pure conjecture, motivations dreamed up by talk radio hosts and other neoconservatives, inadmissable in the court of political jousting.
HTF would you know the exact reason why Al Q. chose to strike when and where they did?? It could have just as easily been their outrage over George Bush Jr. getting in the White House, albeit through the back door. Maybe Mr. Ashcroft's people need to talk to you.
Tabs, how exactly would you explain the current attacks on our people in Iraq? After such a flexing of military might by our fearless leader? Residual underestimating by guerilla fighters who don't know that the weakling Clinton is gone from power?
And never forget Bin Laden, like you say. The American public seems to have...., weren't we going to get him, "dead or alive"? What a crock. I'd say that we have comedians in power, if only they were funny.
EDITED for punctuation.