Originally Posted by Duke of Rezin
So what would you have the Feds do, sit on their a$$es and do nothing? Maybe these raids have something with a scathing report being released criticizing the Feds for doing just that. As for Sodom, I mean Saddam, that guy was a time bomb waiting to go off. France, Russia, Germany, the free press and others had been underming and eroding the support of the British and US' efforts ever since the end of the first Gulf War. Saddam, whether he actually possessed WMD's at the time of the recent invasion or not, threatened the world's oil supply. Stop for a minute and try to comprehend just what that really means. It goes way beyond just the privilege of driving SUV's on US highways. The world is dependent now on oil for its very survival. Unless you are a hunter-gatherer or organic subsistence farmer every aspect of your life depends on the flow of oil, like it or not. We have a right to survival and if we can help the rest of the world in the process then that's just wonderful. So we got a few hotheads in the Middle East riled up, considering the alternative its a small price to pay. The only thing to criticize both Clinton and Bush concerning Iraq is lacking a cohesive plan for running Iraq once Saddam was out of the way. As for the long-range missiles, and to that I think you are referring to the ABM shield, that should go a long way to countering the threat of North Korea. Unlike Iraq, we or anybody else in the West can't invade North Korea because of threat from China and the threat of harm to South Korea so our options are really limited. The bugs have not been entirely worked out of the ABM program but they are being worked out and I WILL feel alot better once its been fully implemented.
