So you want to fight the people who attacked us? Why the hell are you going after Iraq? Oh, you want the Saudi’s oil don’t you?
Does it? Saudi Arabia (SA) does control 30% of the world’s known oil reserves (the greatest in the oil rich Middle East). However, SA today provides only 8% of the oil consumed by Americans and only 15% of the US’s crude-oil imports, less than half the amount US imports from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. The Saudis depend far more on US investment. Without oil to fuel his or her economy, SA will totter on the brink of economic collapse. The emergence of a hydrogen fuel cell (if widely adopted by 2008-2010) can erase US’s dependency on foreign oil.
No, terrorists are different than sovereign nations. You see, Iraq is a sovereign nation, terrorists are not. Going around toppling sovereign nations is a bad thing. Imposing our will on sovereign nations is bad. Sure Iraq is hostile towards us (or at least it’s leader), but that doesn’t mean we should crush them; I consider that bad. Next we’ll be crushing communists right and left in the US becuase they don’t like the way things are run and have the potential (small, but there) to recreate the government, and that’s scary becuase it’s change. Communists don’t make Americans (most) feel safe, therefor they must go. I can simplify this further, going after Iraq is BAD.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “we should crush them.” Our main object is to remove Saddam from power, his loyalist (military and political), reorganize the government, and seizes his NBC weapons capacity. This does not mean going around “Death Star” style, murdering every Iraqi civilian, flattening entire residential neighborhoods, destroying every commercial building imaginable, or claiming Iraq has our 51st state. If we can complete those objectives above with the most limited amount deaths and destruction, we will do it. As for the Communist, don’t worry, we’re peace-loving people. :wink:
Your also going to have tens of thousands Iraqi Civilians killed
Civilian lives WILL perish. However, I’m not sure we can draw assumptions about numbers ranging around the “tens of thousands.” Remember, how much the media extravagated the death tolls in the early reports of September 11th? If there’s one thing I know about the media (especially the liberal ones), is that they love to throw around high causality estimates, when in reality, that number was much lover. Josef Stalin said it best, “When you kill one, it is a tragedy; when you kill one million, it is a statistic.”
There was not a Single Iraqi in the planes on September 11th. There were over a dozen Saudis.
On another note, Iraq does support many terrorist organizations with money, training camps, and the technical knowhow. Hamas (which has received a lot of coverage as of late) is largely funded by the Saddam’s assets, along with technical readouts on how to design better, more powerful bombs.
Each time the attack is worse and worse. A biological attack could wipe out 80% of a city such as Los Angeles very quickly.
Hot damn! On a personal cord, can’t let this happen! :evil:
Britain and Turkey are NOT with us on this one. The only British Politician (and his close supporters) that want to go with us is Prime Minister Tony Blair. Tony Blair frequents local political cartoons as a dog in Bush’s lap.
Britain would be a help to our operation, but they aren’t vital to the operation. From what I heard as of late, Turkey has given us their support in marshalling points for the invasion. And lets not forget Kuwait, we have their full backing in case of an invasion.
Our regular military is green, only the most elite special forces have limited combat experience.
As a note, any troops that have not engaged in active battle are considered “green.” By these means 80%, those who fought in the Gulf War would be considered “green.” Yet those troops still preformed brilliant against even Saddam’s crack troops and armored divisions. It is US’s superior training and conditioning (which many other countries do not enjoy) that will keep our men alive.
Saddam does not starve tens of thousands of people to death every year. You need to stop listening to Bush
As a little known fact, yes they do. You don’t need to be a Bush supporter to see this. In UN “Oil-for-Food” Program (allowing Iraq to sell petroleum in exchange for funds for food, medicine, and other humanitarian imports) Hussein has spent only a fraction of the $15 billion generated from the program for food for starving Iraqis, but instead to finance his military arm and supplicated telecommunications equipment. Compare this with before sanctions were introduced, where Iraq used to spend about $3 billon a year on food and medicine imported from abroad. Are the UN sanctions unfair to the Iraqi people? Yes. Are the reparations we force Iraq to pay exploitive? Yes. However, to say that Saddam isn’t a major reason why tens of thousands of Iraqi children starve each month (Saddam esp. likes to target those “unloyal” to him [ex. Kurds, political fractions]) is a major misnomer.
