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Joe

wrote:
Just to add a little fuel to the fire of controversy surrounding
our invasion of Iraq:

I live near a major Army training center up in the High Desert
of Southern California. A few of my golfing buddies are retired
senior Army officers still doing advisory work relative to the
training activities at that center.

One of them told me... about a year prior to the actual invasion...
that this was what all their training agendas were focused on in-
cluding the month that was anticipated for their entry into Iraq.

As a result of our conversation... and in the ensuing months to
follow I kind of got the impression that Saddam Hussein himself
could have come crawling into the Oval Office on his hands and
knees offering appeasement ...but it wouldn't have made any
difference.

That this invasion was pretty well pre-ordained and etched in stone
... so to speak.

My aformentioned statement is not an attempt to justify or criticize
what has occurred... but just a sharing of some personal insight
that I came accross back then... and of course subject to my own
perception of what I heard.

Best regards to all

Bill

The reason the focus of the military was on Iraq was was because in
1998 the Congress of the United States passed the "Iraqi Liberation
Act."

This act was promoted and signed into law by then President Clinton.
This Act called for support of the INC (Iraqi National Congress) and
the removal of Saddam from power.

The Iraqi Liberation Act was enacted and was black letter law
long before President Bush was elected as President. President
Bush inherited this law, and the removal of Saddam had already
been mandated by the US Congress long before President Bush took
office.

In October 2001, the US Congress voted unanimously (save one
traitor from California) to resolve that "a state of war exists
between the USA and all international terrorists and all those
that aid or harbor terrorists." This Congressional resolution
provided President Bush with the individual power to determine
which entities and nations were either terrorists or aiding or
harboring terrorists, and further, granted President Bush
*exclusive* discretion to use the full weight of the US Military
to hunt down or otherwise eliminate any such designated enemies.

Saddam had developed his own terrorist faction called the
Fedayeen, and these terrorist goons surfaced during the invasion
of Iraq. These terrorists were not only responsible for murderous
attacks on coalition forces, they also were murdering Iraqis that
refused to fight and were further holding hostage the families of
Iraqi soldiers. In true radical Muslim style, these Fedayeen
terrorists also traveled around the Iraqi countryside
decapitating Iraqi women that had committed the unspeakable crime
of simply waiving at the coalition forces.

Saddam openly admitted and bragged about sending money and
arms to the Palestinian terrorist organizations known as Hamas,
PLO, and Islamic Jihad. All three of those terrorist
organizations have murdered Americans in the past, and are
well-known terrorist organizations.

On December 27, 2000, Saddam openly and publically declared
war on the United States, Britain and Israel. Saddam's
declaration of war occurred only ten months prior to the 911
massacres, and his declaration of war was carried on the front
pages of all the Baghdad newspapers, and on the front page of
most Arabic European newspapers. Under the articles of the Geneva
Convention, any nation in receipt of an official declaration of
war has a right to preemptively attack the nation that issued the
war declaration.

The USA and Britain not only had the legal right to invade Iraq
and depose Saddam due to the violation of not less than seventeen
UN Resolutions since the Gulf War, they also had the moral
authority and the ethical necessity to do so.

Joe

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