🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <brcr22h4j85md3hgiq27ks7sjgt7it2pea@4ax.com>,
 Yosemite Sam <mud@flap.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:12:12 -0600, SteveR <tex_driver@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <1143823315.916246.147480@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> > "Jean Smith" <gotermite@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> SteveR wrote:
> >> > In article <kiqm22lejk40mqsf157ka37lhq0r18rmot@4ax.com>,
> >> >  Yosemite Sam <mud@flap.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:20:44 GMT, Jean  Smith <gotermite@yahoo.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >In article <2s3m22hm1itken3fp8u4sg5ah0juq3bocp@4ax.com>,
> >> > > > Yosemite Sam <mud@flap.net> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > >>  On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:09:16 GMT, Jean  Smith 
> >> > > >>  <gotermite@yahoo.com>
> >> > > >>  wrote:
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>  >In article <0djl229rdalq8vu6n7jh4gvs7sssc0ecbo@4ax.com>,
> >> > > >>  > Yosemite Sam <mud@flap.net> wrote:
> >> > > >>  >
> >> > > >>  >>  On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:55:12 -0600, SteveR 
> >> > > >>  >>  <tex_driver@comcast.net>
> >> > > >>  >>  wrote:
> >> > > >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  >In article
> >> > > >>  >>  ><jackzwick-AF2594.16432222032006@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com>
> >> > > >>  >>  >,
> >> > > >>  >>  > Jack Zwick <jackzwick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> > > >>  >>  >
> >> > > >>  >>  >> In article <ydWdnbkD1s5lXLzZRVn-uA@forethought.net>,
> >> > > >>  >>  >>  Anonymous <anon@anonymous.com> wrote:
> >> > > >>  >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > "arminius" <richard norton@cybertrails.com>  wrote :
> >> > > >>  >>  >> >
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > > Republicans must distance themselves from this 
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > > worthless 
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > > and
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > > failed President.
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > >
> >> > > >>  >>  >> >
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > Who Clinton?
> >> > > >>  >>  >> >
> >> > > >>  >>  >> > Yeah we know he failed but it's over now.
> >> > > >>  >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  >> Better get ready. January 20, 2009
> >> > > >>  >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  >> President Hillary Clinton
> >> > > >>  >>  >
> >> > > >>  >>  >From what I see, the repub's are more eager to see her run 
> >> > > >>  >>  >for 
> >> > > >>  >>  >pres
> >> > > >>  >>  >than
> >> > > >>  >>  >most dem's. I wonder why?
> >> > > >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  Condi!
> >> > > >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  Condi!
> >> > > >>  >>
> >> > > >>  >>  Condi!
> >> > > >>  >
> >> > > >>  >She's our man. If she can't make war, nobody can.
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>  Another idiot lieberal.
> >> > > >Condi in Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 2000:
> >> > > >  As history marches toward markets and democracy, some states have
> >> > > >  been left by the side of the road. Iraq is the prototype. Saddam
> >> > > >  Hussein's regime is isolated, his conventional military power has
> >> > > >  been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and
> >> > > >  he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore
> >> > > >  determined to develop WMD. Nothing will change until Saddam is 
> >> > > >  gone,
> >> > > >  so the United States must mobilize whatever resources it can,
> >> > > >  including support from his opposition, to remove him.
> >> > >
> >> > > Um...so?
> >> > >
> >> > > Looks like she had real foresight to me..
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The more I read of the seized Iraqi documents, the more I realize just
> >> > how insightful and foresightful this administration was concerning
> >> > Saddam.
> >> The Iraqi generals, who believed us and thought that there were WMD,
> >> got a big surprise. But maybe they were relieved to not have to commit
> >> war crimes.
> >
> >I don't think respect or fear of "war crimes" was foremost on their 
> >minds.
> >
> >Getting the hell outta Dodge seemed to be their first priority.
>  
> Most had been lobbied repeatedly  in the weeks leading up to the
> invasion by the US to remind them of their complicity in war crimes
> should they deploy any WMDs.

That, and the fact that many of them had dealt with the US military 
before.

Once bit.