04-11-2003, 02:13 AM
"The U.S. Media is really getting annoying"
That is the title of post 15 in the following post:
What the aims were
Short answer, though, is:
The threats to America are hard to explain to a short attention span audience, like the American people. The threat is actually to the Mid East friends and allies of ours. That one is easy to explain, and to Mid East stability. Mid East instability is bad for the world economy, which includes the US.
The other risk is that he will, or has, put some of the 'stuff' in the hands of Bin Laden or other terrorists who will use it on us. That risk is real, but apparently most people are not convinced, and will only be convinced if something else blows up and some one can play Hawaii Five O and show, in the span of time of a sitcom, how it is all his fault. Real life aint CSI. I don't need that much convincing that he will do it, but I understand those who want more evidence. I don't blame them, on that particular Saddam-Osama score.
The skeptics are correct to point out that Saddam is not the only place that such stuff could come from, and Russia cannot account for all of its 'stuff' in the past 10 years . . . so again, short attention span populations need more, as did the Senate and House.
What was in the classified briefings to the House and Senate I am not sure, but it apparently sold quite a few of them.
The rebuilding of a liberated Iraq is 10 times the job of rebuilding Bosnia, and guess what?
We are STILL in Bosina, 8 years later!
The only advantage Iraq has is a liquidatable asset, oil, that can be an engine for economic health. Bosnia has none of that advantage, and is full of international aid junkies.
That is the title of post 15 in the following post:
What the aims were
Short answer, though, is:
The threats to America are hard to explain to a short attention span audience, like the American people. The threat is actually to the Mid East friends and allies of ours. That one is easy to explain, and to Mid East stability. Mid East instability is bad for the world economy, which includes the US.
The other risk is that he will, or has, put some of the 'stuff' in the hands of Bin Laden or other terrorists who will use it on us. That risk is real, but apparently most people are not convinced, and will only be convinced if something else blows up and some one can play Hawaii Five O and show, in the span of time of a sitcom, how it is all his fault. Real life aint CSI. I don't need that much convincing that he will do it, but I understand those who want more evidence. I don't blame them, on that particular Saddam-Osama score.
The skeptics are correct to point out that Saddam is not the only place that such stuff could come from, and Russia cannot account for all of its 'stuff' in the past 10 years . . . so again, short attention span populations need more, as did the Senate and House.
What was in the classified briefings to the House and Senate I am not sure, but it apparently sold quite a few of them.
The rebuilding of a liberated Iraq is 10 times the job of rebuilding Bosnia, and guess what?
We are STILL in Bosina, 8 years later!
The only advantage Iraq has is a liquidatable asset, oil, that can be an engine for economic health. Bosnia has none of that advantage, and is full of international aid junkies.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete