🚀 go-pugleaf

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.