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Mara1Jade
Expanded Universe Goddess and Corran Obsessor
Member # 68
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posted 02-11-2003 12:31 AM
     
Well, my two cents was and always will be that we shouldn't just sit on our hands. The Iraqis, with or without nukes, have ALWAYS expressed clear hate and intent to harm towards Americans. Hell, they were dancing in the street the day the Columbia exploded from what I heard. So who's to say that on any given day when the Iraquis are feeling particularly nasty they won't just up and fire off those nukes at us even after we retract war?No one. I say we go in and get'em. The nuclear threat is just that; a threat to get us to back off. If they weren't hiding something IMHO, they wouldn't need to threaten... -------------------- Small minds think in small terms!
~~CMH, creator and writer of Shayla Petrolu, Erik Kartan, Shawn Petrolu, Terrin Danner, Jasyn Lancaster, Matt Stanza, Aaron Barnes, And Taylor Garrison~~
Posts: 972 | From: Jacksonville, FL, USA | Registered: Sep 2000 | Logged: 66.20.159.80
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Anakin
Retired
Member # 8
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posted 02-11-2003 04:08 PM
As a warning, if I offend you, you take things too personally.Mara1Jade, there is no nuclear threat from Iraq. They don't claim they have nukes, we know they don't, but we do know they want them, and are trying to get them. If you're basing your opinion on this war on the fact that they could have nuclear weapons, you might want to rethink it. Also, they aren't threatening to launch anything at us, be it nukes, chemical, or biological weapons. The only thing they threaten is complete anihiliation if we attack them, which is pretty much like the tiny 4 foot 2 inch nerd telling the 6 foot 9 inch bully to back off. Something else to remember is that putting all the Iraqis in to one group is a bad idea. It would be more kosher to say Saddam Hussein wants these things than to say the IRaqi people want them. For one, the Iraqi people are very mislead, second, not all of them hate America, and many of them do in fact hate Saddam. But how do you vote a dictator out of office with a riffle in your face? You don't. Also, the launch radius the Iraqis have can't reach the United States, so anything they launch won't hit us. Now, it oculd hit our troops, and that is likely to happen if war breaks out, but from what you said it sounds like you're afraid they'll shoot some nukes to North Carolina or something. Plus, Saddam Hussein, as evil as he is, doesn't want all the Americans dead, he wants us out of Iraq and out of the middle east, and we're not doing that. (I'm not saying we should)
Personally, I want the United Nations to survive. Other nations apparently don't, which is why they want to block any kind of war in Iraq, but they can suck our toes. My reason for going to war would be all the broken resolutions, which really shouldn't lead to war, since we break resolutions too. I do, however, think getting rid of Saddam will be better in the long run, and better to do it sooner than later.
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Posts: 1663 | From: Louisville, Ky/Chicago, IL | Registered: Apr 2000 | Logged: 12.220.189.20
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Mara1Jade
Expanded Universe Goddess and Corran Obsessor
Member # 68
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posted 02-15-2003 11:50 PM
I still want to know why they would threaten if they didn't have something to hide...-------------------- Small minds think in small terms!
~~CMH, creator and writer of Shayla Petrolu, Erik Kartan, Shawn Petrolu, Terrin Danner, Jasyn Lancaster, Matt Stanza, Aaron Barnes, And Taylor Garrison~~
Posts: 972 | From: Jacksonville, FL, USA | Registered: Sep 2000 | Logged: 65.80.105.224
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