Jane Bovary

Remember Afghanistan

leonarde

Partial previous post:Uh, which demands were unreasonable? The surrender of bin Laden and assorted al Qaeda officials? What other demand would anyone make given that all signs pointed to al Qaeda as the source of the terrorist attacks? Were there some other demands? If so, what were they?

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RoddyM

Given that the US has decided to attack Iraq it makes good sense to weaken Iraq beforehand.

Amen-Moses

It is unreasonable to expect them to hand people over without:

1) Any evidence of their involvement.
2) A guarantee that they will be tried under international law rather than some kangaroo court.

So far the 9/11 attacks have been traced to 19 Saudi's, 2 UAE's, 1 Kuwaiti, 3 alleged Yemeni's (who were cremated in the desert without a trial) and a possible connection money wise to the Saudi royal family.

What a great indictment of the Afghan angle!

Amen-Moses

Ultron

It's not what Saddam's declared he has that's the issue, or what the UN inspectors have discovered. But what is yet unaccounted for. Do any of you trust Saddam so much to leave the discrepencies to clerical error?

Also let's take a look at how the Americans and the Taliban treated Afghanistan, shall we? 200,000-500,000 deaths in less than a decade under the Taliban takeover of that country. In 2 months we kill 3,000 civilians but few after that.

Let's just say 4K vs 400K roughly, would be two orders of magnitute difference between how we treated that country, and how the previous regime did.

Can any of you here argue that the USA's influence over Afghanistan is worse than the influence of the Taliban?

How about the million Afghans killed by the USSR in 8 years?

Mr. Superbad

Huh?

Loren Pechtel

You miss the point. The Taliban and Russia are going to ignore the protests. Thus people won't protest no matter what the death toll.

However, protests have some effect on the US. Therefore protesting *MIGHT* prevent the US from killing someone. That's a good thing--even if it means somebody else kills 100 instead. We didn't do it, that's all that matters.

ImGod

Hussein should do the only thing he can effectively do to hurt Bush and the United States. His representatives should go to the UN and tell them he will step down as the IRAQI leader and allow an international peacekeeping force to assist IRAQ in rebuilding the government. The only stipulations are that the UN sanctions be lifted, he not be prosecuted, and the peacekeeping force come from Russia, Germany, and France.

Bush would be stuck with several hundred thousand troops in the region and nobody to fight. Saddam escapes with his life and Bush get stuck on the outside after going through all that effort.

Then the focus would likely shift back to the economy.

Loren Pechtel

The only one who doesn't benefit from that strategy is Saddam.

ImGod

I think escaping with your life (most likely with a large amount of money) while effectively neutering Bush and the US foreign policy would be a benefit. Especially when compared to dying.