delcor:
Everything you’ve described here is PURE partisanship. At least be honest about it, and don’t sully the Bible or religion in the name of a phony war.
It was President Bush’s father, George Herbert Walker Bush who decided that Saddam should stay in power and he imposed economic sanctions on Iraq after the first Bush war there. We already had a war with Saddam, Desert Storm. President Bush (the father) handled it brilliantly. Did you read about that war when President Bush 41 was in office? This current “war” is just a shameful blood thirsty sin against humanity, painted over by a broad brush hoodwink to the public in the name of “9/11.” So where is Osama anyway?
Take a look at the slaughtered children in Iraq. They have a right to life just like anyone else. So much for your Christianity. Nothing Christian about an irresponsible abuse of power.
Bush 41 got UN “approval” (yet, did you know that the number of countries signed on was LESS than that of the CURRENT COALITION?). The UN said they would go along ONLY to push Saddam back from Kuwait, and NOT follow him all the way to Bagdad. Certainly, in hindsight, was that “brilliant”??
Saddam did NOT comply to the “peace treaty” that he signed after Desert Storm. UN resolution after UN resolution, the international community begged him to comply. The economic sanctions?? Worthless–because most leaders care about the economic well-being of his countrymen. NOT him!! We saw that we could get food to Iraqis in exchange for Iraqi Oil. Did the food get to starving Iraqis?? NO–because Saddam skimmed 21 BILLION dollars off the program, bribing european officials, to families of PLO suicide bombers, and built palaces for himself. All the while, keeping Iraqis under his thumb through rape torture and intimidation.
Certainly, in hindsight, was that “brilliant” to not have handled Saddam back in ’ 91??
After 9/11, what to do?? Saddam was *not *involved in carring out those specific attacks. HOWEVER the Global War on Terror is not
just about Al Queda. It’s not *just *about the Taliban. It’s not
just about Hamas. It’s not
just about Hezbollah. It’s not
just about Al Islam
etc etc.
It’s not
just about the kidnappings. It’s not
just about the beheadings. It’s not
just about suicide bombings. Or car bombings. IT"S ABOUT THE FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT for such attacks. IT’S ABOUT THE MEANS TO SUPPLY terrorists with WMD.
The list of bad guys in the world is long. Saddam, giving his history of war, murder, corruption, and defiance of a peace treaty and 17 UN resolutions, President CLINTON signed a joint resolution of Congress putting forth a policy that the US wanted REGIME CHANGE in Iraq. That was 1998. Well before 9/11, when the idea that we were no longer safe from evil men and their financiers and supporters became forefront.
Much of the War on Terror getts LITTLE media attention. Much of the war on terror has LITTLE to do with violence!! Blocking bank accounts. Auditing business suspected of terrorist ties. Gaining information from captured terrorists. Cooperation with allies. Diplomacy with less-than-trustworthy.
MOST OF ALL, the LARGEST victories on the war on terror came in the non-violent days of October 9, 2004 in Afganistan and this past January 30, 2005 in Iraq!
FREE exercise of speech, assembly, association and religion DEFEATS the hate and resentment that breeds the hopelessness that fuels the terrorist rage. The Coalition is building schools, hospitals, sanitation and electrical networks, repairing homes and offices, training police and military personnel…this isn’t violence. It is love, compassion, charity, and hope!!
Osama?? Either he’s safely hidden but with no place to go, or we know exactly where he is, and we intercept his communicae with his minnions to thwart other attacks. I DON’T KNOW. But the Middle East is seeing rays of hope, instead of seething rage, and that makes Osama a little less relavant every day.
