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Date Posted: 12:01:20 02/18/03 Tue
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: War or Peace?
In reply to: mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "Re: Where was I going?" on 07:50:56 02/18/03 Tue

-1)umm...we get regularly fired on by Iraqi missle stations every month.

Here? Civilian targets? Or our military presence near their borders? Do we fire back regularly? Or do we fire first?

-2)An Al-Qaeda member arrested in Britain last month for a plot to attempt to poison the water supply to a Brit military base (with a large supply of poison - a type that Sadaam has had and refused to declare that he destroyed)

(I am not aware of Iraq being controlled by the Al-Qaeda. I was led to believe that Saddam was in charge there... and that he was NOT a member of that religious splinter-group.)

receieved medical care in Baghdad (leg amputation) due to injuries received courtesy of American forces in Afghanistan.

(So Doctors shouldn't help the wounded? Doctors shouldn't help people regardless of political/religious affiliation? Do you advocate Republican-Only Hospitals in America? If this person had managed to make his way to America and an American Doctor helped him, would you crucify that Doctor?)

Of course, harboring the sworn ememies of the USA, the people who attacked WTC, the USS Cole and the military barracks in Riyadh is just being neighborly...

Didn't we train Al-Qaeda members to fly airplanes? With our attitude toward the Middle East, it should come to no surprise that Saddam is sympathetic to the Al-Qaeda. But sympathy is not the same as "tied" or "allied". Perhaps if we negotiated a peace with Saddam, and he became interested in our mutual success, he would be less inclined to help those who are anti-America.

I really don't see why peace with Saddam would not be to our advantage. If we had peace, it wouldn't matter if he had weapons of mass destruction or not, since he wouldn't be inclined to use them on us. If we have war, well, then it becomes important since he will use them if he has them.

I think a diplomatic peace with Iraq will solve more problems than a war will.

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Replies:

Perhaps we can follow the numbers... -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 16:04:57 02/19/03 Wed
- Some Direct Questions -- Adilbrand, 17:09:32 02/19/03 Wed
  - Re: Some Direct Questions -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 21:17:50 02/19/03 Wed
    - France -- Mt. Healthy Mountaineer, 09:49:06 02/20/03 Thu
      - Re: France -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 11:01:03 02/25/03 Tue