I do not have time to read all these post right now, it has been another 14 hour day on duty......short day really. Anyway like I said I will go back and read everything later on, but since I was there (in Iraq) and at Ground Zero...... and I had friends who wont ever be coming home....I have the right to say what I think without reading every single post........Great post! Thank you for your service.
1) Not sure if it there was or was not WMD or if it was moved out of the contry.....but EVERY INTELL AGENCY IN THE WORLD.....EVERY ONE OF THEM......all said SD had WMD.....could EVERYONE of them be wrong????? some thing to thing about......
2) SD NEEDED the world to beleive that he had WMD so he could keep other powers in check, like SA and Iran from kicking his ass out......HE was all about power
3) After 3,000 people were killed on 9/11.........(and if you are one of those that say this is all fake you are a stupid A hole)......the USA was in no mood to play games with anyone........Bush's best line.....either you are with us or you are not......or something like that......he laid down the markers and put the rest of the world on notice just like FDR did on DEC 8th 1941.......and it worked for a long time, till we got bogged down in Iraq, becuse the VP and Rummy.....screwed up the after combat phase.....totaly screwed it up big time................whoes idea was it to fire a 1 million strong Iraqi army......and send them away with NO JOB...NO MONEY...NOTHING........we were asking for trouble and we got it..big time
4) SD had to go.....when the histroy books are written in 10-20 years it will show that he, his sons, his party killed a million of his own people..........and someone had to stop him and that was us. Not only was teh US Air Force flying cover over 2/3 of the country......and getting shot at EVERY DAY FOR YEARS after the 1991 Gulf War......it was only a matter of time before the Iraqis got lucky....then what would have occured?...........SD HAD TO GO!
For those of you who say we are not the worlds police force......you are wrong, WE ARE.....despite the bad ecom. we are in.....we are still the strongest, biggest, most powerful Country in the world, where 1000's seek to leagly come here EVERY year....to say nothing of the 1000s who are willing to DIE for a better life here......they risk EVERYTHING to come live here......where else do people do that?....NO WHERE!
sure we have a lot of issue, but we are still the BEST Country the world has every seen.....and with that title goes responsibility to help others.
Should we help our own, of course we should and we do........with all the federal programs for those that have nothing or are down on there luck.....we DO HELP OUR OWN.......EVERY DAY!
OK my three cents........... Originally Posted by soldierboy44
The Dims were almost all on board when we went into Iraq. Just about everyone was convinced that Saddam had WMD's. Clinton's CIA director George Tenet, that Bush foolishly kept, said that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had WMD's. It was despicable the way the Dims pretended that Bush lied to get us into Iraq. All that blood for oil talk was nonsense.
You're right about us being the world's police force. The world has been damn lucky to have us. If we really wanted to take over the world, as so many liberals seem to think, we could have done exactly that after WWII; we had nukes and no one else did.
It looks like America is going to be forced to downsize it's military due to the fact that we are going bankrupt. It's likely that China will emerge as the world's only superpower in our absense. The world will soon wish they had America to come to the rescue.
