06-08-2004, 11:38 PM
Except they screwed up (B) and © a loong time ago. We invade Iraq because they are oh, 6-7 years away from PERHAPS getting a nuke (being very very generous to bush and co), while we leave
North Korea: Known to have the bomb (probably more then one), the world's largest standing army, several thousand American targets very close by, and a dictator who is by all accounts way off his rocker.
Iran: Extraordinarily close to the bomb now, an extreme fundamentalist Muslim country who doesn't particularly like us (as opposed to the secular Iraq), and openly aids terrorists (See: Hezebollah, Al Qaida).
Pakistan: A government hanging by a thread militarily, fundamentalist Islam intelligence services and population, has multiple nukes, SOLD said nuke capability to North Korea, has sponsored terrorism for around 40 years (see: Kashimir) and has no qualms playing brinksmanship with said bomb.
alone. Despite the fact the burden of proof was on OUR side, we simply claimed Iraq could not prove it had disposed of everything (attempting to sleight of hand burden of proof onto Iraq, which would be impossible for the Iraqis to prove even if they had disposed of everything), and thus invaded Iraq even though Afghanistan was still being rebuilt, screwing over not only the soldiers in Afghanistan but also the country, not planning at all for post-war Iraq rebuilding, thus creating a very hostile situation for the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers overseas, plunging us into even more debt (I believe the appropriations bills for Iraq, come to what, over 100 billion already?), and forcing us pretty much to make sure we stay in Iraq until we fix the mess we helped to create.
North Korea: Known to have the bomb (probably more then one), the world's largest standing army, several thousand American targets very close by, and a dictator who is by all accounts way off his rocker.
Iran: Extraordinarily close to the bomb now, an extreme fundamentalist Muslim country who doesn't particularly like us (as opposed to the secular Iraq), and openly aids terrorists (See: Hezebollah, Al Qaida).
Pakistan: A government hanging by a thread militarily, fundamentalist Islam intelligence services and population, has multiple nukes, SOLD said nuke capability to North Korea, has sponsored terrorism for around 40 years (see: Kashimir) and has no qualms playing brinksmanship with said bomb.
alone. Despite the fact the burden of proof was on OUR side, we simply claimed Iraq could not prove it had disposed of everything (attempting to sleight of hand burden of proof onto Iraq, which would be impossible for the Iraqis to prove even if they had disposed of everything), and thus invaded Iraq even though Afghanistan was still being rebuilt, screwing over not only the soldiers in Afghanistan but also the country, not planning at all for post-war Iraq rebuilding, thus creating a very hostile situation for the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers overseas, plunging us into even more debt (I believe the appropriations bills for Iraq, come to what, over 100 billion already?), and forcing us pretty much to make sure we stay in Iraq until we fix the mess we helped to create.