On 2/27/04 8:42 AM, in article ,
"Pechs1" wrote:

SNIP

Garbage and how much 'international law' was ignored when we preemtively
invaded Iraq.


Ouch. Guess I should have stayed home then. How many U.N. Resolutions were
ignored by Iraq?

SNIP
david As for Saddam, it does appear that he was supporting
terrorists, including al Qaeda, which includes training bases in
northern Iraq. With Sad dam gone, most of the "structure" of the
middle East is gone. It basically destabilize the whole region. BRBR


tyou really aren't that clueless are you?


That's the second time you've said that about this issue Pechs (at least
since I've been counting). Ansar Al Islam in northeastern Iraq was linked
early on to al Qaeda. Not the sole reason for going to war, but certainly
an indication of the sort of miscreants you could find in country.

It is an attempt to nation build a country that is western(meaning USA)
leaning
in the back yard of other Arab nations that are not. It just isn't working and
the military is taking the brunt of it all.


That's certainly one interpretation. The military is currently fading out
of Iraq and training locals to take over. We now have an exit strategy from
Iraq instead of languishing in OSW as we did for 12 years--sending pilots
over the beach for no real good reason to get shot at.

Continual defiance against U.N. resolutions, failure to obey demarkation
orders, the threat of WMD (which Saddam *did* have *and* use *and* postured
as if he still possessed), links to terrorism, threats against U.S.
Interests, and an oppressive regime were enough reasons to go to war.

Not to mention that preemptively going into Iraq was the right thing to
do--in the same way rounding up 20-or-so Arab students who were in the U.S.
taking flight instruction in the spring/summer of 2001 would have been the
right thing to do.

Imagine how people would have been up in arms over THAT mess--ACLU and the
like.

P. C. Chisholm
CDR, USN(ret.)
Old Phart Phormer Phantom, Turkey, Viper, Scooter and Combat Buckeye Phlyer

My only regret is that we didn't remove him from power in 1991 (which
admittedly at the time I thought was inappropriate)... Although then the
debate would have been how we would have become an imperialist power.

--Woody