On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:56:26 -0400, "Benign Vanilla"
wrote:


"PlainBill" wrote in message
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Don't believe me? Read a little on the life of Osama bin Laden. He
started out as an ALLY of the United States. Then when he learned the
truth of the Reagan Doctrine, realised he'd been exploited, and
decided to retaliate.

It's kind of funny - everyone agrees (myself included) that the world
will be a safer place without Osama bin Laden and al Quida. However,
our President has decided that Iraq (which had no WMDs) is a more
important target.

We give weapons to Osama to fight the russians and then leave. He attacks us
what 4? 5 times?

We give weapons to Iraq to fight Iran. Shall we now wait for them to blow
something up here?

BV.

How was Iraq going to blow something up here? It has been pretty well
established that their nuclear weapons development program was going
nowhere. They APPEAR to have disposed of their stock of chemical
weapons. That pretty much leaves 'conventional' terrorist attacks.
Face the facts, Hussein was close to the head of the list of worst
dictators of the last century, but he was not a serious threat to the
United States.

There are dozens of countries with a greater capability to attack us -
just search the CIA World Book of Facts for countries whose 2001 per
capita GNP was greater than Iraq's. There are dozens of nations who
would LIKE to hurt the United States. These include many nations in
the Middle East, many in Africa, and a few in Asia. Look at the
nations who have or are developing nuclear capability. One name pops
up on the 'Danger' list consistently - North Korea. Iran is a second.
Lybia is a third, although they claim to be playing nice NOW.

One reason was to 'Free the opressed people of Iraq'. You don't have
to look even that far to find people who are in worse straits.

Decades ago I heard a Latin phrase - Que Bono (Who Benefits). Ask
that question, then look at the answers and you'll get a pretty good
idea of the reasons Cheney was so eager to attack Iraq - and Bush was
willing to be led around on the leash. I'll give you a hint - Which
nations have the greatest untapped oil reserves?

PlainBill