02-11-2007, 07:29 PM
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Machiavelli Incarnate
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
Posts: 5,776
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Originally Posted by StormanNorman
Well, first, that's if you assume that we actually needed to fight this war. And, second, Iraq hadn't gotten any stronger in those 13 years, Gix....in fact, Iraq and Saddam were getting weaker. Prior to the first Gulf War, Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world.....and a very well equipped one at that. In the subsequent 13 years after much of his army was destroyed, Iraq did very little to regain the level of forces it had before the war. The sanctions and the no-fly zone enforcements were taking their toll....and, contrary to GWB's statements, he was contained.
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this is where you and i differ.... you see iraq as the war in iraq.... i see it as a front in the war on terror/islamic extremisim.... im not going to sit hear and argue with you because our fundamental beleifs are diametricly opposed...... i challenge you to look at the macro aspect of our current global conflicts. You can honestly say that all of the micro confilcts are not part of a macro aproach and war...
anyway whatever
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