[Rhodes22-list] More Politics

[Michael Meltzer]

maybe the problem is we are not kill more.

MJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Rosenberg" <lsr3 at MAIL.nyu.edu>
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Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:32 AM
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> 
> By Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Ret.,
> http://baltimorechronicle.com/041704retreason.shtml
> Baltimore Chronicle
> 
> I am a member of Veterans For Peace, an organization of thousands of  combat
> veterans. All of us have put our life on the line for this country.  Most of
> us opposed the recent invasion of Iraq. We also opposed the first Gulf War,
> and the sanctions that followed. We opposed the slaughter of fleeing Iraqis
> on the Road to Basra. We opposed the use of Depleted Uranium munitions. And
> we opposed the lies upon which the first Gulf War was based.  But there was
> one good thing about that first Gulf War. It ended. And
> without a wholesale invasion of Iraq. Why?
> 
> Here's what the first President Bush wrote about that in his memoirs "Trying
> to eliminate Saddam would have incurred incalculable human and political
> costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We would have been forced
> to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. There was no viable exit
> strategy we could see, violating another of our principles.  Furthermore, we
> had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in
> the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally
> exceeding the United Nations mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of
> international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone
> the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an
> occupying power in a bitterly hostile
> land.
> 
> My brothers and sisters, it is just too darn bad his son can't read!
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