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OT and contentious: Torture photos from Iraq
Bill Tuthill
Typed in Message-ID:
Why was invading Iraq the right strategic move? I'm trying to think...
(and deleted a bunch of sentences putting words in your mouth).
The biggest reason, aside from the general fact that Saddam is the most
murderous ******* since Stalin or the Khymer Rouge, is as an object lesson to
countries that continued to support radical islamist groups. The success or
recent failures of the group depend on governments that are willing to allow
them to train and stage in their countries. Whether or not that Al Qeada
actually trained or was supported by Iraq is fairly irrelavent, I don't know
why any of the Bush administration even mentioned. There has always been a tie
between the Iraqis and Al Qaeda, that's why Clinton bombed the factory in the
Sudan, owned by Bin Laden and supplying the Iraqis. While I think the response
was ineffective, the intelligence there seem to have been correct.
I do believe that this is all out war between the Islamist and the West. If we
in the US and the West are not willing to take direct action against countries
that provide support of terrorist groups, then we lose.
Already you see some results, Libya coming in from the cold, the Saudis
Government, and perhaps more importantly, religious leaders denoucing suicide
bombings and terrorist murders.
Even Iran is softening its hardline stance.
IMO, if we pull out now, we have just paved the way for the Islamist to operate
openly in every Arab nation in the Middle East.
Do you think that the Germans or Japanese loved us when we occupied their
countries?
SYOTR
Larry C.
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