Originally posted by LWW Please supply me with another use for an aerosol dispersion artillery shell? Ans something to kill industrial insects doesn't count.
I wonder if one could use them for large scale bug spraying.. though, I really would have to immagine that crop dusters are a much better alternative.. As for what else they could be used for, I have no idea.. The question wasn't what would I use them for, it's would I have them.. and the only reason I would have them would be if I had an alternative (reasonable and viable) use for them.. since I don't know what else they could be use for at the moment, I wouldn't have them at the moment, now would I? So, again, you are trying to over simplify things and twist contexts to suit your needs..
I've heard you say this but don't know where you are getting it. I know we had some business dealings before the monster showed himself but all of Saddam's weapons I have seen were either French, Russian, Chinese, or N Korean. I'm not 1oo% convinced you are wrong but you are the only source I recall for this.
It's based on our helping Saddam during his war with Iran.. We were playing both sides against the middle, is how I belive you put it? How do you aid someone in a war if you aren't giving them money and weapons? Maybe it was just money so they could buy more French and Russian weapons, that doesn't make us any less culpable..
I've got a problem with this also. You are against intervention. You concede (at times) inspections didn't work.
I concede that in the past they didn't work at all.. When Bush invaded, it looked like it was working to a degree.. not completely, but getting closer.. Because of that, it's my opinion that we should have kept pushing that route until we were posative it wasn't getting anywhere.. since we had Saddam blowing up missles at the time, it was obviously getting somewhere..
You don't want to wait for these weapons to be used. You concede (at times) that even you believe we will find them.
I concede that we 'might well' find them.. I concede that there is a reasonable possibility we will find them, but I also concede that we might well have found them with inspections and pushing the other issues other than invasion.
I see no other choice than inspections (failed), waiting to be attacked (insane), and taking him down (worked). If you see another option you haven't mentioned it so I assume you don't.
Again.. for the last time since I'm tiring of wasting my breath.. you say inspections failed, I say that avenue was abandond too soon.. So, your statement of
So whatare you trying to prove other than you dance from point to point in contradictory circles attempting to prove something which appears more and more wrong each day?
shows your distinct lack of reading comprehension skills.. How many times do I have to say I don't believe we exhausted the UN/Resolution/Inspection option? You believe we did, I believe we did NOT.. If you can't understand that, then you really are thick.. and all this is your blowing your own horn just to hear yourself talk and practice being an ******* to people and keeping your shitty debating tactics polished.. you must be planning on running for office soon or something..
Wrong again. Yes we do know. In 1998 Billy Jeff loaded Kuwait up with troops to make Saddamite Hussinsein comply. Saddam basicly told Bubba to go commit fornication with the horse upon which he was riding. Then he threw the inspectors out of the country and very little is known directly of what happened since. So yes we DID try the gun to his head. He dared Billy Jeff and Billy Jeff flinched. Our troops were sent home.
How many troops? Certianly not 250,000 like we had when Saddam let inspectors fire a 'presumed' legal missle based on published stats, but it tested longer than it's range so they had to be destroyed.. He didn't like that, but he was destroying them.. THAT IS THE POINT.. so, with a 'serious' threat at his border, he at least looked like he was trying to keep from getting spanked.. You say it was a stall... a stall for what?? If we are getting what we want (if we really only wanted to disarm him), we WERE GETTING IT.. slowly, and it needed more effort perhaps, but it was happening.. that point can NOT be disputed, period.. He was blowing up ~10 missles a day..
So, I would really like to know how many troops we had in Kuwait and how many went 'home' as you claim..
The problem was passed off to the next administration...very similar to the Bin Laden deal.
Amazing how generals have gone on the record after Sept. 11th as saying they had been given info on bin Laden and even had him in their sites a few times, but the pentagon told them to leave him be for now.. Sure wish I could find some sources for that.. I wonder what you would say if proof that your precious administration is doing the same thing with bin Laden that Clinton did..
ONCE AGAIN THE ONLY THING SADDAM UNDERSTANDS IS FORCE! A gun pointed at someone's head is useless if they are convinced you won't pull the trigger.
And if Saddam didn't think Clinton would, he certianly thought Bush would.. clearly, since he was DESTROYING MISSLES once the US brought over ~250,000 troops.. Which, again, is why I think we had a responsibility to push the diplomatic/peaceful/inspection possibility farther.. Saddam was worried and we should have taken advantage of that.. instead, we invaded.. That tells me it wasn't about disarming Saddam.. And, in FACT, we now know this administration wanted Saddam out for various reasons, some of them started as early as the middle of last year, long before this war started.. In that light, yes.. war/invasion was the only way.. but the initial and only LEGAL reason was disarming..
You guys keep looking at it as if Saddam were a sane reasonable individual. If he was he would never have attacked Iran or Kuwait. He isn't. To his way of thinking he had stared down 2 US presidents and neither of them had the steel in them to take him down. He thought the same thing about this one. He thought wrong.
Again, we disagree since THIS time he was blowing up missles and letting the inspectors go places they hadn't been able to get to before.. THIS time, Saddam was worried since we had so many troops.... nevermind, I'm tired of reapeating myself..
Verrrrrrry interesting. You so proudly have claimed on multiple occassions that the whole war was over oil due to the Bushes being in the oil business. Now when the stupidity of that argument is demonstrated by applying it to any other group and industry you take humbrage. You don't mind tossing out your trash but you don't like it being thrown back I see.
Actually, 'supporting' the war is what most people do by saying it's a good idea.. yeah, the US is right, yeah Bush is great.. blah blah.. Nationalism.. fine.. that's different than the 'support' given by oil companies.. A better statment might have been that the oil companies are encouraging the quick invasion instead of diplomatic solutions.. why? diplomatic solutions would completely preclude oil companies getting money.. invasion and a new government in Iraq means the oil companies can get their hands on Iraq's oil.. The local police station that 'supports' the war doesn't gain anything.. their support/encouragement doesn't have potentially DIRECT PROFITS for them.. for the oil companies it does..
To even try and talk to 'stupidity' is pretty pathetic when you insist on using the debating stance of the most stupid people I've ever met.. You continually refuse to stick to the points, and actually have not even tried to refute (I'll guess here) about 75% of all the other points I've made, you focus in on things you think you can twist contexts about and resort to posts of pure namecalling and your famous 'pap' statements.. funny how that works..
I see why you like to define the rules. When this first started it was a Scud that was acceptable. Now it has to be nuclear. Would you 2 listen to yourselves here:
No, a SCUD was NEVER claimed to be a WMD.. it was claimed to be a missle with an illegal range (375 miles, clearly over the 93 mile limit).. So, it's a long range missle and illegal and capable of carrying a chem/bio weapon warhead (though, I believe just about any missle can carry a chem warhead).. And, a BOMB is NOT a WMD in any event (convential explosive
type that is).. Blowing huge holes in a building or gaping holes in a street is what a bomb does, not a weapon of MASS destruction.. To something that can actaully ruin a full city block, I would think only nukes could do that.. that would be 'mass' on a small scale.. You 'might' be able do that with a big enough convential bomb, but I'm doubting that..
WOW! I had JOKED earlier that you would have supported leaving Hitler alone to not be wrong. I never actually believed you would. Well you got me here Savant. I WAS WRONG ABOUT YOU!
again, you twist things for your own needs.. I never even came close to implying Hitler should have been left alone, yet you try to convince your audience that I would have.. Another perfect example of out-of-context pulling and ignorant debating.. good job..