Re: 20 Questions for President Bush About Iraq
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1. O`neil is a nutjob. What does a treasury secretary know about warfare.He spent his time galavantly around the globe with Bono. Bono! ( Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998 HR 4655 )
A treasury secretary doesn't have to know dick about war to know when it is being discussed in a Cabinet level meeting.
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2. Iraqi`s are now assuming more and more control,ergo becoming a larger target.For some reason terrorists dislike getting into firefights with Marines.
You don't address the question at all. More Iraqi's are getting killed by other Iraqis every day, that is by definition, a Civil war. Under your flip non response, can we assume that as we cede more control to the Iraqis, the death rate will climb even higher? so we can never leave? or we can't leave until the death rate is 100 per cent?
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3.Allawi the FORMER PM. The death rate in Iraq is lower than in the US 5.7 per thousand vs. 8.3 per thousand according to the 2005 World Almanac.First the "quagmire,lets cut and run" didn`t work.Now the "civil war" mantra. The marxists left`s wet dream.
4.See # 3.
Again you don't address the question, Alawai knows the ground there. Bush has been to the airport for a few hours. If its not civil war, what is it? As far as death rates, do you really feel its safer in Iraq then here? The death rate is an interesting but ultimately meaningless statistic. check out this chart http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=iz&v=26
Under your logic, the Gaza strip is a really safe place, and Switzerland is dangerous, and people are damn near immortal in the Falklands.
The death rate in Iraq is artificially low because there is no infrastructure. Hard to die in a car accdent if there are no cars. Unemployment is as high as 80 per cent. Hard to the victiim of an industrial accident if there is no industry. The mass exodus of people from the country is also having an impact.
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5. LOL This is too easy. Robert McNamara (D)
You had to go back to Kennedy?? McNamara may have led us into war in Vietnam,but he recognized his mistake and resigned rather than supporting the escalation of troops there. http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/...s/mcnamara.htm
Again, what does this have to do with how bad a job Rumsfield is doing (thousands of tactical mistakes, according to Condoleeza Rice) and how blind Bush's support for him truly is?
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6. The war was over in weeks.Show me where Saddam`s standing army in uniform is?
They are the insurgents. They were disbanded then politically abandoned without being disarmed.
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7. An asinine juvenile emotional venoumous question .
Bush is too big for his britches and should be called on it.
Since the Whitehouse staged the whole carrier thing, making and hanging the banner, using a jet instead of a helicopter. manouevering the boat so there was no shoreline visible for the cameras, and then delaying for another day the sailor's long awaited and well deserved return home after 10 months of duty so Bush could spend the night on board, the question is spot on.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in580661.shtml
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/p...536170,00.html
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8.Why not.There are bases in Germany aren`t there? And it`s been what,60 years since WWII ?
Those bases were there in effect by invitation and per treaty as part of NATO to protect against the Soviet Union and we were and are welcome there for the most part. What are the bases in Iraq supposed to be protecting the Iraqis from??
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9. Spend it on the poor. We`ve spent over 5 Trillion on the war on poverty.Let`s cut and run,we ain`t winning that one.
Again, you don't address the question, at all. 320 billion when it was supposed to cost no more than a few billion, at most. We are now running the largest deficits ever, constantly having to raise the ceiling on the national debt, while cutting social programs to the bone. Spend it on medical research, spend it on alternative fuels, spend it on proving Intelligent design, anything other than throwing the cash into the woodchipper, which is what we are doing in Iraq
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10.Read Saddam`s mukhabarat files,now available.In their own words how they support and engage in terrorism.Poor Huffy must feel like an arse now.
11. Refer to #10
I read them from the link you provided. 3 pages about one meeting with someone unknown in Saddam's Iraq with a Bin Laden envoy in 1998. No evidence it came to anything at all. You couldn't get a conviction in traffic court with that kind of evidence.
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12.Name at least 3 other companies that do what Halliburton does?
Enron come to mind.
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13. Huffy is now just deranged and completey unhinged. No bid contracts are subject to limited profitt margins of about 3% Besides that, they did nothing very wrong in an extremely stressfull job: Halliburton to be reimbursed for most disputed Iraq contract costs
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/...fx2557300.html
Here is a list of all the abuses discovered by official audits of Halliburton
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/audits.html
Decisions to pay them despite all these findings were contrary to Army policy and justified by the exigency of the war effort. So, they did do something wrong, but they got away with it by wrapping their abuses in the flag.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2005Feb3.html
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14. Ansar-Al-Islams terrorist bases in Iraq,operated by Saddam,are now gone.Name me 3 bases run by terrorists in Iraq today?
Every major city is now a terrorist base. New recruits are the one thing in Iraq in abundance. Progess.
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see 10 and 11 above. and 16 below.
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16.No one claimed a direct link.The opertaional link is glaringly self-evident.
First, virtually everyone in the administration either claimed or inferred a direct link. I just saw Bob Dole try the 3000 dead on 9-11 ploy in CNN before Wolf Blitzer shot him down. Secondly, there wasn't even an operational link
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=2828
The bipartisan 9-11 commision found "no credible evidence" of any operational link between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
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17.No WMD`s ? LOL Heard that canard too many times. Even the IAEA admit to 500 tons of yellowcake uranium at Al-Tuwaitha,south of Bagdahd.1.5 tons of it highly refined.Yeah,no wmd`s at all.
As of 2002 the only positively confirmed nuclear material left in Iraq is 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and several tons of natural and depleted uranium. The material is in a locked storage site at the Tuwaitha nuclear research facility near Baghdad. Under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, this stock of material is checked once a year by an IAEA team. The most recent check was in January 2002, and none of the material had been tampered with at that time.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/wo...q/tuwaitha.htm
There were no WMD's and the raw materials were under International Control and had been since 1991. By the way, the raw materials that might be developed into weapons are not weapons. Otherwise, the ATF should be raiding every machine shop with a lathe and some iron. The Administration made repeated reference to a mushroom cloud, but it was really for a mushroomed public. Kept in the dark and fed nothing but bullshit.
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18.Oh boy,Katrina again.Show me which article of the Constitution that says," And there shall be a FEMA." There is none, and the USA is a Republic.The Feds are not and never have been the primary first responders.They cannot under law enter a State without permission.Go ask Kathleen Blanco why she waited over 24 hours to allow the Feds into Louisiana.
You're doing a heckuva job avoiding the questions. Does it matter how long someone delays asking for help if there are not enough people to respond??
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19.The ol` chickenhawk routine,"why don`t you go and serve!" Well,first off,there`s a little thing called division of labor.Read about it Arrianna,then get back to me.Secondly,why don`t YOU go serve in an abortion clinic and perform abortions,being a pro-baby killer yourself.
See how that argument easily whipsaws.
Division of labor? Did I miss something, or are Lyndie England and Jessica Lynch males?? If Arianna were an Ob Gyn and refused to do abortions, you could accuse her of hypocricy, but I am not aware of any requirement for military service that the Bush twins can't meet. Except heredity.
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20.More than 300,000 civilians were killed by Saddam. Can you predict how many more hundreds of thousands of lives would be lost by doing nothing.
Saddam was in power for 30 years, we have been there 3. Conservative estimates are that between 33,000 and nearly 38,000 civilians have been killed in the ongoing conflict. http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ and this is only reported deaths, so the actual numbers could be much higher.
I'm sure your question was a rhetorical one, but to answer it anyhow, fewer lives would have been lost if we had not started this war.
20 questions. and not one real answer. But that is probably about the same ratio we would get if Bush himself were responding.
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