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Ahh, I merely made a mistake and left out a word, I was intending to say  
tens of thousands to terrorists and use the wtc as an example. The UN 
inspectors  
did not make that statement, they were still inspecting before the war and 
were  not allowed access to the areas at the top of their list. They had not 
found any  at the schoolyards and baby food factories the Iraqi's had taken 
them 
to but  they never wrote off the entire country as WMD free. Lets face it, 
the 
Iraqi's  moved all that stuff across the Syrian border. My cousin was over 
there at  the time and says everyone was so frustrated that we were not 
allowed 
to move  sooner. They watched the convoys of heavy loaders run from the sites 
they were  most intent on inspecting to Syria. When they did get in, they did 
find weapons  casings galore, missile parts etc. It has just been convenient 
for certain  factions of our govt. to beat the drum and say "Look no WMD" . I 
guess it did  get the Republicans out of office though. 
 
In a message dated 12/5/2008 1:43:33 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
lurine AT softcom.net writes:

Drew,  you have fallen into the track of "who writes the history."

There  weren't 10s of thousands killed in the WTC.

Second, the UN inspectors  said there weren't any WMDs.

And, by what right do we have to tell  other countries what to do.  Seems to 
me that the U.S. uses terrorist  tactics on a routine basis.

I find it amazing how soon folks forget  that the U.S. put Sadam in power. 
The U.S. told him to go ahead and do the  majority of things he did against 
other countries.  There are plenty  of pictures of ol' Rummy shaking his hand 
and inspecting the troops in  Iraq while they are dropping bombs on Iran.
Exactly why we had to do what was done. If you place someone in a position  
of power
and they don't perform, you have to get rid of them. In this case We put  him 
there and 
he was killing innocent people and invading other nations. We had a  
responsibility to 
clean up the mess we had made. If I hire someone and they don't work out I  
fire them,
but if they screw up the whole company in the process and I don't do  
something THEN
it is my fault and I am fired. The US had better take responsibility for  
mistakes as well
as positive actions and clean up after themselves.



Sadam was great as long as he didn't offend someone by building  a hotel with 
a certain someone's face on the floor to be walked on.   He did our dirty 
work in the Middle East and kept the reins in on  Iran.

And I'm still amazed at how many people jump back and forth from  bin Laden 
to Sadam as though they were somehow related.
You are right about that, really their only connection was the money sadam  
was giving the
terrorists. 



*Some* innocents?  Gee, shades of "acceptable collateral  damages."  Kinda 
sounds like Israel.  Oops, we killed a young  American, we didn't see her. 
Oops, we shot up a journalist.  Oops, we  bombed a school.
Yeah, never good, but very different than targeting women and children and  
not actually
fighting someone who might shoot back. Cowardly.



And can someone please explain to me why we, the U.S.,  supposedly one of the 
best of everything countries in the world, hasn't  managed to fix the 
electrical in Iraq even though we've supposedly been  trying for how many 
years now and how many BILLIONS of dollars?  Took  us a few minutes to blow 
the hell out of it but in YEARS we can't fix  it.  Oh well, why am I 
surprised.  Look at  NOLA.
 
Yup, One of the parents from my daughters soccer team is home from his  third 
tour working on this. Because the infrastucture is very different than  ours 
and we can't just drop ready made parts in and turn them on. Also,  
Electrical 
grids and other utilities are set up with conveniently located relay  
stations, plants etc. Most of those are not in safe zones or defensible  
positions. 
Either we locate power sources in safe zones and lose tons of power  in the 
much longer transmission lines, or add tons of security and risk more  lives 
in 
the bad areas to properly place the stations. No good solutions, and we  have 
seen dozens of bombs targeting these very operations. 
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