Did Bush manipulate Iraq data?

[Growler]

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And with regard to your item 4, I can report that since 9/11 large sections of the region known as North America are on fire and loathsome of the mid-east, and is willing to repeat Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. indefinitely if that is the only way to strike back.

Suggestion: Ask Israel if that way of handling terrorism works.

If you have a better way, which is not appeasement, I would like to read it.

Also, Isreal has been restrained again and again by the US. Isreal could do much more.

How on earth can you justify "striking back" when the people who do get the short end of the deal are the same kind of people who got killed in 911? Innocent civilians who have no say in these matters in the first place.

The US goes out of its way to attack only military targets and is highly successful in minimizing civilian casualties. All the (unintentional!) foreign civilian deaths from Afghan and Iraq combined together don't add up to the number lost in New York City.

I think it's a better idea to try and discover what on earth makes people hate the US enough to hijack planes and fly them straight into buildings, and then try to work out a solution from there. Running around with an Iron Fist won't help in any way, unless you kill of every single person who thinks different than you do. If that is your aim then I rest my case.

In the almost 2 years since 9/11, much has been written about "why they hate us". Various conclusions have been reached by various authors. Do you think rational discourse can make the terrorists love us again? I don't.

We could have a debate. Resolved: Violence never solves anything. Wait, let me go dig up my Heinlein...

Growler