(BUFDRVR) wrote in message ...
Paul J. Adam wrote:
and it remains a question worth asking: given the
cost in troops tied up, what made Iraq such a pressing threat?

The potential of Hussain.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"

The Bush administration has been spending enormous sums of money on
"potential" threats that Iraq supposedly posed while ignoring real
threats like those posed by North Korea. Plus, with ten times as many
troops in Iraq as in Afghanistan, the true "war on terror" is being
starved of resources.

I would have preferred that Hussein had remained in power; he was a
secular dictator who kept those Islamic fundamentalists in his country
from achieving the influence that they clearly now have for the first
time. Few people outside of Iraq had heard of Ayatollah al-Sistani
before but now he's the most powerful person there.

The US is much worse off by the invasion of Iraq, which has allowed
Islamic fundamentalism to take hold in there, while diverting
resources away from combating Islamic fundamentalism elsewhere in the
world.

Regards,

Abhijit