[Rhodes22-list] Show me the beef.

[Rik Sandberg]

Slim,

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I would favor giving Saddam's leash a good hard 
jerk, right now, BEFORE he has had time to become better prepared! You're 
right waiting could be very dangerous

I would also agree with Wally. If we're going to do it, then let's give him 
a real HARD lesson, the first time. Don't be dikin' around. He's already 
repeatedly shown us that he is a slow learner. I think the lessons need to 
be more obvious.

Rik


At 12:53 PM 1/26/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Rik,
>
>Giving Saddam enough rope to hang himself is an option.  Kinda risky though.
>He might blow away a lot of people before he's blown away.
>
>Slim
>
>On 1/26/03 11:47 AM, "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Rummy,
> >
> > I agree with you. War is not a good thing, no matter how you look at it.
> > Sometimes though, it's the other side that's setting the ground rules and
> > in order to come out ahead, everyone else must play down to the same level.
> >
> > I agree with you that nukes are NOT a good idea and should be avoided at
> > any cost. We have enough conventional weapons to turn Iraq into a glass
> > parking lot with probably some to spare. The use of nukes should not even
> > be considered.
> >
> > I don't think I understand this logic though:
> >
> > At 11:33 AM 1/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >> My BIG concern with going to war with Saddam is that we don't know if 
> he has
> >> weapons of mass destruction and until we do, we shouldn't be sending our
> >> troops in there. He has turned these weapons on his own people before 
> and he
> >> wouldn't care if a few more would lose their lives if it took out 
> thousands
> >> of Americans.
> >
> > Would it then be better to wait until Saddam has had a chance to build a
> > huge arsenal of WMD, rather than the few he probably has now and then go
> > over and try to take them away from him? Unless I am mistaken, I thought
> > the point of this war was to stop him before he has time to build a really
> > big and even more dangerous arsenal. If anybody thinks this guy is
> > dangerous now; let's just give him a few years along with all that oil
> > money and see what he turns into. He doesn't have much else to spend it on.
> > Certainly wouldn't waste any on his own people.
> >
> > Rik
> >
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