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On 2/11/2003 4:38:42 PM sp300 wrote:
The economy won't mean much if Saddam keeps giving Bin Laden's entourage the wherewithal to kill Americans.
I would gladly give my time to our President, to keep the military charters flying.
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C'mon, even the CIA has come out and publicly stated that they can't find a shred of evidence to connect the two. The only thing Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have in common is they both received financing and weapons from the U.S. of A. in the 80's!
I know I'm off topic here, but I have to challenge this.
Before we go running off to bomb some country, risking the lives of our loved ones and those of Iraqi civilians, don't folks think we ought to take a long hard look at what kind of foreign policy led us to associate with such scumbags to begin with?
Especially when the war is likely to have such grave consequences for our economy, airlines, our family members and friends who are being called up (my brother just left tonight) and all of the Iraqi civilians who are going to be caught in the crossfire....
This ain't about defending our country, folks. It's about money, oil and power. It ain't about stopping a tyrant in Iraq either. Will the next guy we install in power there be any better than the last one we propped up in power there? Hmmm... that would have been.... Oh yeah, Saddam Hussein!
All this does is put our loved ones in harms way, inspire new recruits for bin Laden and create chaos in our economy and in global politics.
This is serious stuff here. Our loved ones are being sent to possibly make the ultimate sacrifice. We owe it to them to ask some hard questions instead of declaring connections between bin Laden and Hussein that just ain't there!
-Airlineorphan