How interested are you in Iraq?

I ask, because my posts on Iraq seem always to head for the archives much faster than posts on almost any other subject. Is it because most people on this board aren't interested?

Just what I thought. :eyes:

Dude, it was only up for 6 minutes.

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I served in Operation Southern Watch in the 90's when we along with the Brits, French, Saudis and Kuwaiti's maintained the no-fly zone and allowed the weapons inspectors to do their job. In 2002, Iraq did not have any WMD because of a lot of hard, professional work in the 90's when we had a sain commander in chief. All that hard work has been flushed down the toilet of "conservative" incompetence and ineptitude. I'm very interested at what's going on. For 20+ years I went to the funerals of service members and served on several funeral details. Seeing a flag draped coffin rips my heart out especially when our Soldiers are dying for politics.

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I salute you.

I salute you wonderful taxpayers the first of the month when that retirement check hits the checking account.

that Iraq had destroyed all its remaining stockpiles of WMD by about 1992. The testimony of the person in charge of WMD (Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law) to the Jordanians in 1995 is that he personally gave the order to destroy said stockpiles and verified that the orders had been carried out.m This testimony has been corroborated by other investigations, although you'll never hear about it in the corporate-whore media.

All that "hard, professional work in the 90's" you speak of was moot in reality, as Iraq no longer had any WMD to speak of after 1992.

But don't let me rain on the parade of your self-congratulatory back-slapping.

And a bit holier than thou. Otherwise your point might be well-taken.

so going to war in Iraq is better than maintaining the no fly zone. And Saudi Arabia and Kuwait picked up a big hunk of the bill for Operations Northern and Southern Iraq, so it wasn't a sinkhole for american taxdollars.

Part of my award citation reads: Your contributions were instrumental in ensuring compliance with United Nations resolutions and in maintaining the national interests of the United States of America. Pardon me while I pat myself on the back. I was almost killed by a terrorist strike. If so, I guess I wouldn't be troubling you with my posts.

were really necessary, because there were no WMD in Iraq after 1992.

Assuming that's true and I don't believe it is, if there were no no-fly zone Hussein would have been in a more powerful military position in 2003 then he was. I lean towards containment and negotiation every time. Because of the maintenance of the no fly zone, bush could only lie about WMD. If that scenario had remained in effect, Hussein might still be in charge but our military would be much stronger then it is right now as it is slowly being weakened in the hands of a mad man. Use your military to strive and maintain the peace.

there is just SO much going on out there.You know my kid was over there three times.

Here's a salute to you and your kid: :patriot:

my site is devoted to ending it!

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however i try not to post when i have nothing to contribute but my negativity, in the case of iraq, i feel the time to protest, call my senators, etc. was before the war started and their stable gov't removed, now it's too late for that, i have no idea of what should be done, i feel an immediate withdrawal would mean the religious crazies would slaughter the decent people who just want to live their lives and it would mean that women who were once free would be put in chadors, iraq once had the most women engineers in the middle east, as a woman, i don't see removing a gov't that was fairly good for women and replacing it w. chaos or religious crazies as a good thing so we seem stuck in the unwelcome role of trying to sit on everybody's head and make them behave -- a task at which we are failing miserably because we seem to have failed to control the spread of bomb-making materials thru the region

so where i have nothing positive to suggest, i try not to post, but if i do not post because i have nothing worthwhile to say, then i am not kicking the thread am i?

some of us probably are pretty speechless on this topic, just don't know what to say

"Very interested. I feel responsible for what's going on there in some way."

When the night of shock and awe went down, I watched every minute of it that was shown on TV. It was heartaching to see. My neighbor said "Good God, why don't you just turn it off?" and I responded "Because I feel a duty to witness what's being done in my name."

And welcome to DU.

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Some of us even have family there!

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