[Rhodes22-list] Show me the beef.

[Steve Alm]

Rik,

Giving Saddam enough rope to hang himself is an option.  Kinda risky though.
He might blow away a lot of people before he's blown away.

Slim

On 1/26/03 11:47 AM, "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Rummy,
> 
> I agree with you. War is not a good thing, no matter how you look at it.
> Sometimes though, it's the other side that's setting the ground rules and
> in order to come out ahead, everyone else must play down to the same level.
> 
> I agree with you that nukes are NOT a good idea and should be avoided at
> any cost. We have enough conventional weapons to turn Iraq into a glass
> parking lot with probably some to spare. The use of nukes should not even
> be considered.
> 
> I don't think I understand this logic though:
> 
> At 11:33 AM 1/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> My BIG concern with going to war with Saddam is that we don't know if he has
>> weapons of mass destruction and until we do, we shouldn't be sending our
>> troops in there. He has turned these weapons on his own people before and he
>> wouldn't care if a few more would lose their lives if it took out thousands
>> of Americans.
> 
> Would it then be better to wait until Saddam has had a chance to build a
> huge arsenal of WMD, rather than the few he probably has now and then go
> over and try to take them away from him? Unless I am mistaken, I thought
> the point of this war was to stop him before he has time to build a really
> big and even more dangerous arsenal. If anybody thinks this guy is
> dangerous now; let's just give him a few years along with all that oil
> money and see what he turns into. He doesn't have much else to spend it on.
> Certainly wouldn't waste any on his own people.
> 
> Rik 
> 
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