Nothing We Haven't Heard Before

[merrylander]

Letting Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora was going after the root cause?

[piece-itpete]

Nowhere did I say Saddam was behind 9-11.

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Nowhere did I say Saddam was behind 9-11.

Pete

But that was the question Combwork posed. He asked why attacking Iraq was the appropriate response to 9/11. Your post certainly looked like an answer.

John

[piece-itpete]

Ah I see. It certainly is.

Pete

[Bigerik]

Iraq is certainly LESS stable now then it ever was before. Chances are that Iraq will end up as three separate countries, likely with a nasty, ugly civil war somewhere along the way.

Saddam Hussein was a threat to no one after the first Gulf War. His army was mostly destroyed. His air force was all but gone. His "weapons of mass destruction" were basically WW1 vintage gasses, supplied to him by the West.

The one thing that Saddam was, however, was likely Osama Bin Laden worst enemy in the middle east. The invasion of Iraq was Osamas dream come true. Not only did it tie up the US forces in a war it cannot win and bleed the country dry economically, it also removed one of the strongest, secular governments in the middle east.

It almost makes one want to believe it Allah, all the presents that have been given to Bin Laden in the past decade.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Iraq is certainly LESS stable now then it ever was before. Chances are that Iraq will end up as three separate countries, likely with a nasty, ugly civil war somewhere along the way.

Saddam Hussein was a threat to no one after the first Gulf War. His army was mostly destroyed. His air force was all but gone. His "weapons of mass destruction" were basically WW1 vintage gasses, supplied to him by the West.

The one thing that Saddam was, however, was likely Osama Bin Laden worst enemy in the middle east. The invasion of Iraq was Osamas dream come true. Not only did it tie up the US forces in a war it cannot win and bleed the country dry economically, it also removed one of the strongest, secular governments in the middle east.

It almost makes one want to believe it Allah, all the presents that have been given to Bin Laden in the past decade.

You do have a strong argument.

Chas

[westgate]

Originally Posted by Charles

I think Pete is referring to boring holes in peoples knees with an electric drill.

A favorite tactic of the IRA I once read.

Kind of gives me the willies just to think about it.

Now I could beat the piss out of someone to get some answers, or even shoot him in the head...if I thought it was necessary. It's not something I want to do, but I could, at least once or twice.

But there ain't no way I could bore holes in some poor slob with an electric drill.

Guess I'll never make a dentist, huh?

Chas

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Give me the drill, and a one inch paddle bit. I'll put holes in the knees, holes in the noggin....................

gives a whole new meaning to "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!".


forgive me, couldn't resist it.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by westgate

gives a whole new meaning to "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!".

Awesome! lol.

On the instable/partitioned Iraq, that horse's been floating around for years now, long before the surge.

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

On the instable/partitioned Iraq, that horse's been floating around for years now, long before the surge.

Pete

Our presence there, propping up a central government with over 100,000 soldiers and lord knows how many mercenaries (contractors), may be the only thing preventing this.

Don't you think?

John