Message from discussion Who still believes we should have sent infantry to Iraq.

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:17:24 +1300
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Pooh Bare wrote:

> I have friends in the military and maintain close ties though no longer 
> working directly for them. Personaly I think we did the right thing under 
> the circumstances.
> 

I'd have agreed with you if it was only much later that we found out the 
"threat" (WMD) was a crock and the whole thing had no justification. 
The early excuse was that "well anyway Saddam was a monster so it was 
important to liberate the people from his evil rule".  Yet all over the 
world there are evil rulers from whose rapacity and random cruelty the 
people need liberation, and not a sossinge.  So - getting slowly to the 
point - didn't you think, right at the beginning, when Bush was still 
working hard rarking up potential allies, "this doesn't add up, this has 
  the smell of hypocrisy and self-interest"?

A L P