"""""""'I assume you are referring to the suicide bombers in Israel. That is Israel's problem, not America's. What has Israel done for the U.S.? Nothing. Israel is at war, let them fight their apartheid battle."""""""
No its not just Israel's problem. Saddam has destabalized the MidEast ever since he murdered his way into office and been a big factor is the derailing of every peace initiative ever started between the Israelis and Palistinians. Some of you young people seem to think this war only started on 9/11/2001. I got news for you, this war has been going on for over 30 years. These Islamic fundementalist groups were killing Americans even before I served in the MidEast. We were always under terrorist alerts back then. I had a few friends killed by them.
The evil cabal of Arab nations has always funded terrorism but of them all Saddam was the most dangerous.
""""I would think that the way we went into this war was prolly the most un-diplomatic way possible, going against the UN and such."""
This benign veiw of the UN, by Americans , is very dangerous. The UN has worked against our interests almost exclusively. Its given a voice to all kinds of tyrants,dictators,strongmen,presidents for life thru its history. Its also a very corrupt institution, concerned only in accumulating more of its own power. Investigate the oil for food fiasco if you want to find the real truth about the UN.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/oil_for_food_ripoff_040420-1.html The world, and to many people here, have fallen under this misinformation camapign that the UN is some "higher" organization, kinda like "The United Federation Of Planets", that holds the future of mankind to a higher standard. The reality is its a secret,corrupt,veiled organization consumed with accumulating its own power and answerable to no-one but itself.
The UN has been incapable of resolving any conflict without the involvement of both the American taxpayer and the American military. We cut down what were donateing to the UN,"yes its charter only calls for donations and not members fees", and currently fund 22% of its operating costs and 28% of its peacekeeping costs. Now you would think that a nation of 270 million, in a world of 7 billion, that gives that much of its wealth to this whore of an organization would at least get a fair shake in it. Wouldnt you?
What dude has also said is very true and I wont repeat it. The world of terrorism is so shadowy,interconnected, and full of secret alliances that we cant afford to only think Al Qaeda is our enemy. We know who supports terrorism, weve always known. All these Islamic terrorist groups have always hated America, The various Arab dictatorships have always supported them . Those filthy Saudis even secretly supported Al Qaeda with the understanding they wouldnt attack the filthy house of Saud, or attack the Saudi mainland. Saudi Arabia itself heavily fiananced Saddams nuclear weapons infrustructure in the 70s,and 80s. They only stopped fiananceing it when the Gulf War broke out in '91.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/saudi/index.html
And of all these robe wearing fucking cocksuckers Saddam was the worst. He was always the most dangerous. And weve always know he has ran secret terrorist training programshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/analyses/ishe.html. Even now foreign terrorists are meshing with the terrorists from Saddams fedyadeen with practiced military precision. As to his WMDs? We gave him years and years to conceal these weapons. The Iraqis themselves admit they had tons of stocks and chemical precursors that they still cannot account for. And there is growing evidence that Saddam sent what he had left to Syria prior to the American attack. Saddam himself spent years obstructing the UN inspectors in their search for WMDs. He violated every accord,every cease fire clause, every UN mandate, every spoken agreement. What were we supposed to do? Tell him he'd better stop cause this time we really,really,really,really mean it?
But the world isnt interested in facts. The stupid gullable unwashed masses have been flimflammed by the unholy alliance of France,Russia,Germany, the liberal/anti-Bush-America media, and the UN. All of whom made the most money from Saddam. Just look at the biased reporting in Iraq for evidence of filthy worldwide media complicity.
My own years under arms gives me insight into this conflict that many others dont have. I was a few hundred air miles from Tehran when thos hostages were taken in '79. We were on high alert for weeks after, sure we were going in after them. Instead we sat there day after day, in our dorms, cradleing our M-16s, chomping at the bit to go in and kill all these no good motherfuckers!
We had a President named Jimmy Carter at the time. A good man but a weakling. He decided 50 some hostages were more important then American resolve and world standing. He was wrong, and it was a mistake. I knew at the time it was a mistake and we would end up paying for it. The culmanation of that show of weakness was 9/11/2001. Who knows? Maybe we'll end up with a region made inhabitable by a terrorist dirty bomb. Who knows how it will end?
In my mind this war started in Nov of 1979, not Sept. of 2001. Bill Klinton was much like Jimmy Carter, "well take away the good man part". Thruout his entire two terms,despite numerous terrorist attacks, he avoided taking decisive action. He was to busy pandering to that filthy UN. As he did in Somalia, when he removed the heavy firepower from the Somalia contingent. Thats right! While Bush sr was the one to first send troops to Somalia he at least sent in a large US Marine force with enough firepower to accomplish the mission. Klinton, the great military expert, under UN pressure to make the deployment "low key" drasticaly reduced the force structure both in manpower and firepower. He even denied the force commanders request for armor and spectre gunships prior to the Mogadishu fiasco, which BTW was orchestrated and fiananced by Al Quada.
Bet many of you didnt know a lot of this stuff. Compared to "naked prisoners on a leash" they never get much air time do they? Ever wonder why?.................take care.........Rich
