From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 21:57:30 MDT
dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> It was entirely predictable that if we won in Iraq that the left wing
Who you calling left wing? Me or ABC? I hope I am more of a libertarian.
But I agree our quick victory shows God favors Bush.
> would fall back regroup and go into its patented strategy perfected over the
> past 200 years. Rethink, rephrase &relabel, the shift from the concrete to
> the abstract. The opening salvo is to fire so many convoluted salvos that no
> one will ever be capable of answering them all.
You mean like you just did? (I dunno leftist theory and acknowledge you
as the expert)
> Just having General Gas Attack of Sadaam's Army threaten to gas us if
> we entered Iraqi territory was sufficient reason to believe Iraq had the WMDs
> to back up his threat.
Again I agree the veracity of the Iraqi leadership has been above reproach.
> The fact that he had gone to great lengths to evade
> UN sanctions to have Scud missiles with an illegal range was enough to
> justify our thinking he didn't intend arming them with water balloons.
He had some homemade missles that exceeded the allowable range by a few
miles. I'd like to see a source discussing the legality of existing
Scuds. Maybe they should call it 'The Ten Mile War'
> I notice you quoted ABC news. Mike, I am truly ashamed of you. Any
> one of us that listened to ABC news during the war could have collected a
> pithier Anti-American statement from Peter Jennings than the one you used.
> For shame.
ABC is only freer to speak now that they lost the CIA contract to CBS.
(see Skolnick).
-Mike
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