[Rhodes22-list] State of the Union

[Alex Bell]

Brad,

We can't move on Iraq yet. The Iraq people don't have enough white
sheets or white cloth yet. When you surrender 500,000 troops at a time,
you need lots of white flag material. 

The French will be with us when the chips are down. They'll fight to the
last American or British soldier. The Germans, who know a bit about the
French soldier, will help coach us. I believe  the Germans beat up on
the French during the world wars by walking in backwards and announcing
they were leaving. Meanwhile, their biggest concern is their trade
agreements with Iraq. 

Europe couldn't handle the Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Serbia mess. They called
the UN in. What a great move. You can always count on the UN to resolve
world problems. They always find a way to take care of things... with US
dollars. 

BTW, I agree with you and Rik. It just takes me a bit of time to get to
that. 

Alex

brad haslett wrote:
> 
> The environment I was in last night was certainly not
> the best to watch the State of the Union address (a
> hotel bar).  First I thought about taking the Nigerian
> bartenders head off for saying, "why do you want to
> watch that?".  Then some guy came in and started
> bitching about the Flyers hocky game not being on.
> Then some Brits came in and started making fun of the
> whole thing.  I really wanted to take them on and
> remind them we pulled their ass out of the fire twice
> in the last century but there was five of them and two
> of us.  We moved as close to the big screen as we
> could and the volume was pretty loud but sometimes I
> wonder if we heard the same speech as others.
> 
> W made it pretty clear to me that Saddam has not
> accounted for all the known chemical and bio weapons
> he's produced.  Hans Blix has said the same thing.  We
> know there are plenty of folks in the world that don't
> like us, would use anything they could get there hands
> on to hurt us, and wouldn't let their religious
> differences, fundamentalist or otherwise, get in the
> way.  I'm don't think a link between Saddam and Osama
> is necessary to justify invading Iraq.  Our need to
> take care of Saddam stands by itself.  Hopefully
> Powell will convince the rest of the world of this
> next week.  Everyone would like to see the problem
> resolved without bloodshed but what do they offer as
> an alternative, ten more years of sanctions?
> 
> Most folks I know are not anxious to see us go to war.
> Some want to avoid war at all costs.  To them I must
> ask, who would you rather have listened to last night,
> Neville Chamberlain declaring "Peace in Our Time"?
> 
> Brad Haslett
> 
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