On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Brian Carnell wrote:
> I raised the issue of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The U.S. and its
> allies stopped short of deposing Hussein because of rather
> short-sighted near term political reasons.
Short sighted near term political reasons? They were in the Persian
Gulf to liberate Kuwait, not depose Iraq's government. There's no way
the public would have tolerated that. Perhaps the public would have
accepted a targeted assassination of Hussein, but not the occupation of
Iraq.
> I wondered what might have happened if Iraq had been occupied by
> allied forces then and the process of creating a democratic state
> there that Bush wants to undertake in Iraq had already been ongoing
> for 10 years.
Hm... let me guess: the allies would have sparked the current explosion
of islamic jihadist terrorism then instead of now, and something like
9/11 probably would have happened many years sooner. Nothing has been
better for the jihadists than occupying Iraq. It plays right into
their hands and gives them the ammo they need to recruit new people.
Jim
Discussion Thread:
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Brian Carnell at 4/20/2004)
On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Brian Carnell wrote: I raised the issue of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The
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RE: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Seth Dillingham at 4/20/2004)
On 4/20/04, Jim Roepcke said: >Nothing has been better for the jihadists than occupying Iraq. It >plays
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/20/2004)
On Apr 20, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Seth Dillingham wrote: > On 4/20/04, Jim Roepcke said: > >> Nothing has
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Bill Kearney at 4/21/2004)
> I didn't have the brainpower left to read something like that. This, unfortunately, seems all too
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:03 AM, Bill Kearney wrote: >> I didn't have the brainpower left to read something
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Bill Kearney at 4/21/2004)
> Short sighted near term political reasons? They were in the Persian > Gulf to liberate Kuwait, not
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Re: RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc. (by Jim Roepcke at 4/21/2004)
On Apr 21, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Bill Kearney wrote: >> Perhaps the public would have accepted a targeted
