Iraqi sanctions, etc.

Submitted by kman (United States), Nov 20, 2008 at 14:47

Can't see how you posted directly to me so, not sure who you were answering about which. I knew of Kofi's sons collusion with Saddam. I have trouble pulling up his name sometimes. The Saudis and plenty of other Middle Eastern countries have never had one iota of difficulty getting terrorists and their munitions into any country in the Middle East. Now why do you suppose all those fanatically concerned blowhards screaming at the U.S. never smuggled food and medical supplies into Iraq? Why do you suppose? The sanctions were a desperate attempt to reign in a loose cannon who the Arab nations were giving a free hand to. Not a good idea when you have an entire planet dependent on the commerce going on there.

I think a lot of people in the world knew exactly what would become of UN aid from any other nation. Sanctions didn't work and war was not an option until later. We caved to the Liberal agenda (send food & medicine to Iraqis through UN) and that got us nowhere either - RE: the rake off via Kofi & son. When we finally went in militarily, the world and Liberals once again sreeched shrieked their ever fashionable blather. Did Bush manage a perfect war? Look throughout all of mankind's thousands of years of war and point out the number of perfect wars. We were backed into a corner when the Liberal agenda didn't work through the UN. The Liberals were, of course, silent about their failure and the liberal press gave it miniscule attention. So, when the world or Liberals or Democrats, come up with a solution, I'd like to see it. The worlds radicals used what we tried to do to make Iraq their next battleground. We didn't go there to fight terrorism. We went there to take that glass bottle of nitroglycerin (Saddam) out of a very shaky and unstable place. You can rant all you want to about ulterior motives within the government and military industrial complex.

The extraction of Saddam still had to take place. We were above board and gave plenty of warning so Iraqi civilians could re-act accordingly. We attempted to make a surgical strike along the same lines of the Bosnian event which the Muslims owe us for but, won't say a thing about. The Islamic surge into Iraq wasn't our fault. We have met the enemy on the battlefield and the American public hasn't the stomach to fight it. The lack of American stomach goes back several decades and we are going to pay a price for it.

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