"Brian Sponcil" wrote:


"Mark Hickey" wrote in message
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"Blueskies" wrote:

I indeed have compassion for those who were murdered in the twin towers.
The attack on Iraq is in no way associated with
that horrible attack.

There are always those who will prefer to wait and see what happens.
Hope for the best and all that nonsense. I for one am glad we took
out the regime in Iraq. Not doing so would have been a tragic
mistake.

Really? In the absence of WMDs,
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I'd really, really like to think there weren't any WMDs in Iraq, but
it's hard to figure out why Saddam would rather get removed than to
simply tell the UN where and how he got rid of the the ones he admits
having. I hope we don't find out where they went "the hard way"...

it seems to me that the only way this works
out to our favor is if Democracy sprouts in Iraq and frankly I think that's
a long shot. None of the countries surrounding Iraq want that and none of
the people in power positions inside of Iraq want that (or so it seems to
me. I am not briefed by the CIA).

The important thing is that 90%+ of the Iraqis want a democratic
government, and they'll never have a better chance than they have
right now. Imagine how many of them would have lost their lives
overthrowing Saddam's Baathist regime "the old fashioned way"...

Obviously time will tell but at this
point we've spent nearly 100 billion dollars, 700+ lives (not including
those injured) and I don't see how things are much different in regards to
the world being a safer place.

Libya opened up to inspections and agreed to shut down their nuke
program, other more "friendly" countries are suddenly actually
cracking down on terrorists instead of coddling them (note the attacks
in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in response to the change). And best of
all it appears the mind-boggling corruption in the UN might finally be
brought into the light of day. All very good things, IMHO.

And before you blast me for being a pinko liberal be advised that I'd love
it if I were to be proven wrong.

I know you're no pinko liberal - you never said "GWB is dumb" even
once. ;-)

Mark Hickey