On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 01:09:42 GMT Jeffrey Voight wrote:

No, no. I'm the most arrogant, and one of my buddies is the most hateful.

However, I would point out that in following this thread, you've
contributed nothing but 'one-liners.'

I can't tell if you're attempting to defend Europe's past behavior or if
you're just anti-current-U.S. administration.

I'm not 100% on board with some of the decisions that our current
administration has made.

However, I do know that the president's visit to Iraq boosted the morale
of the troops in that dining facility by orders of magnitude if even for
a short time period.


Boosted the moral of 600 troops of how many troops in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Thousands. You're argument is really bringing home the fact that it was
a political stunt. If he was sincere and meant it to be a morale booster
he would have involved many, many more troops. But be honest it's way
too dangerous over there for him to do that. In fact once the wheels of
AF1 left Iraq those troops were reminded of just how dangerous a place
it is there.


I would also say that Monday Morning Quarterbacking has the benefit of
20/20 vision, but actually making tough decisions often includes the use
of blinders. Some of these blinders are placed by rules and
regulations, some of them are based upon impulse decisions.

We went into Iraq knowing that there were WMD. We have since been
unsuccessful in discovering them. We have also recently learned that
Mr. Hussein may very well have been bragging that he had WMD when in
reality, he had paused (and, yes, paused is the right word) his
development while the U.N. microscope clips were holding him down.

Mr. Hussein did some bad bad things to his country and his neighbors.
The U.N. blew an awful lot of smoke up everybody's butts with sanctions
and idle threats. When it came time to put-up or shut-up, they chose
the shut-up stance.

Any country with lots of oil does bad, bad things to there people with
few exceptions.


The Iraqis are "knuckleheads" because they don't see things our way?
You aren't arrogant but myopic. Big differences between the two.
Now get back to your TV watching and shopping and fornicating like a
good domesticated citizen should.


R. Hubbell