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Skriven 2005-03-12 02:30:50 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9830 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: HAVE YOU SEEN CATCH 22 OR
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VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:

 VH>>>>> They condemn us for fighting, and they condemn us for not
 VH> fighting
 VH>>>>> enough. :-)

 EH>>>> They can never be satisfied.

 VH>>> That's the nature of the beast -- they hate America, and nothing
 VH> we do
 VH>>> will satisfy them.  If we WEREN'T in Iraq, they'd be claiming we
 VH> should
 VH>>> be.

 EH>> Exactly! They'd be telling us that our war on terror was distracting
 VH> us from
 EH>> the real threat in Iraq.

 VH> How often have you heard one whine, "So why aren't we invading Iran (or
 VH> North Korea)?"

I don't think its a whine.

They are a part of the "Axis of Evil" and as far as I can determine, more of a
threat than Iraq was.

While we largely ignored North Korea for two administrations, they went and
made the bomb, effectively getting them exactly what they want, instant
attention and respect through fear. Now if we do something they might light up
Seoul and/or Tokyo.

Iran is about the develop nukes and we are playing good cop/bad cop with our
European allies help and the reality is save air strikes, there is little else
we can do if they just ignore us.

Iran has a minister of defense who openly plans the use of nukes against the US
and even lectures his lessers on how this will happen, mostly through
terrorists.

But we are so far beyond the Iraq question. We are there now and have to win-
period.

The fact is while we are in Iraq, the bad guys of the world know we won't go
sailing into their sandbox in any great force, so its time to bulk up since
they also know Europe won't do much, if anything.

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