How about, Even when Saddam had plenty of help from Cheney's buddy Jim
Baker, he couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, so why are we going to
kill all those innocent people?
----- Original Message -----
From: Gar Lipow <lipowg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:28022] Re: Re: Iraq
One thing: I think in opposing this invastion, we should not refer to
stuff like Americans coming home in body bags, implying that this will a
tough invasion to carry out. If it turns out that the U.S. m iliatry has
an easy time destroying the current Iraq goverment do we then support
it? And also we don't know that it will be tough. No-one can predict
this sort of thing. Saddam may well have put together an army capapble
of resisting a U.S. invasion. He certainly has had time; and the
support for resisting a U.S. invasion is probably strong regardless of
how people feel about their government otherwise.
But he has not had a whole bunch of money to buy weapons with nor great
access to the supply market in general (to put it mildly). The bottom
line is WE DON'T KNOW how strong Iraq resistance will be. It is better
to premise our opposition on another basis.
Michael Perelman wrote:
Bush should attack in late September/early Oct. according to the
official
wag the dog election calendar.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:49:59AM -0700, Ian Murray posted:
World leaders appear to be in deadly earnest over warnings
that Saddam must be deposed by force. But some in the US
are asking why a blueprint for the conflict was leaked at
the moment when sleaze scandals hit a new peak. Report by
Jason Burke in London and Ed Vulliamy in New York