Hilmar;

When George W. was appointed President I told my wife we would have war with Iraq. The reason is simple: Daddy did not finish the job in 1991, and junior felt compelled to complete it. Put all the comments together from George W. and be sure to include his comments about the attempted assignation of his father by SH. It is just a family matter and nothing more.

Unfortunately for the world, George W. is the president of the worlds most powerful country and can express his feud with SH as he wishes, which he did. Are there WMD’s? Is SH still alive? Tune in after the next Presidential election in the United States, (if there is still a world) to see what has changed.

Somehow I feel that nothing will be different if we around in 2005. U.S. military members will still be playing sand dog, digging around in the sand pit to find something, SH will still be an unknown and George W. will still be president - either reelected or will have extended his 4 year term to life, because of "Homeland Security"! Republicans will rejoice and bow to George W. while the rest of the world prepares for whatever may come next.

Not everyone in the United States is happy with any of this. However, the media in this country and the rednecks are having a great time showing the world "how great we are"!

Tom


>That is more or less the way I see it, too. Getting rid of a dictator is a pleasant side-effect, but for the U.S., it definitely looks more like an excuse, than anything else.
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>But what is totally unclear to me is, what might be the real reasons for the war. Different reasons have been proposed, including a quest for power, for petroleum, and a war against the Euro (apparently Iraq had started to make transactions in Euros instead of US$), religious prejudice. But it is hard to tell which is the real reasoning behind the war.
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>>Here's what it all boils down to...
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>>The U.S. and the U.K. insisted to the rest of the world that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that posed an immediate threat to the security of the free world AND that Iraq was in league with Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups and so posed a clear and present danger to freedom-loving people throughout the world.
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