Thoroughly Researched

Hullabaloo has a nice collection of links that clearly demonstrate how off-base the warmongers are.

As for me, I'm still waiting for someone to offer evidence--real, genuine evidence--that Saddam Hussein was in any way a threat to the United States. Consider: The US Air Force operated with impunity in both northern and southern Iraqi airspace (which were "no-fly zones" for the Iraqis--not that they had much of an air force anyway, just a few MIG jets that were buried in the sand--it would have taken a week or so just to dig them out, much less get them in flying condition). Abu Masab Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind now blamed for everything bad in Iraq short of high temperatures and dust storms, could've been taken out in 2002, except that Bush, for political reasons, decided to let him hang around in the Kurdish controlled autonomous provinces in northern Iraq (which means that Bush is indirectly complicit in Zarqawi's ugly acts of sadism against civilians, as well as his attacks against US and Iraqi forces). There's the whole issue of Kurdistan itself--nominally Iraqi territory, it was de facto independent from Baghdad, begging the question: if Saddam WAS going to attack something, the logical place would be the part of his country that wasn't under his control. Yet Bush persisted in the fiction that Hussein had his sights set on the west.

Airplane and satellite overflights of Iraqi territory could easily have picked out the following: troop movements, chemical and biological weapons facilities, missile silos--anything that could indicate hostile and/or aggressive intents. Where's the data? Considering the Bush tendency to publicize anything that would further the case for invasion (including classified material), why haven't they produced any surviellence information?

Finally, what's the plan? Bush can mutter, stammer, spit out, or even overenunciate terms like "freedom," "terrorists," "reconstruction," and so on, but without a definite plan--and contingencies in the even of, well, failure, he might as well be pissing in the wind. Platitudes won't do a damn thing. You can't wish the Iraqi mess away.

And this mess can be squarely laid at the feet of the Bush team. It's their damn war--they were warned as to the consequences, and they ignored everyone, including the more sober assessments of their own political cohorts.

I say send 'em there. Bush foolishly announced "bring 'em on." They're there--so why not have Bush et al get the hell over there as well.