In 1998, the United States also changed its underlying policy toward Iraq from containment to regime change and began to examine options to effect such a change, including support for Iraqi opposition leaders within the country and abroad. That is fine but that does not mean the United States should invade Iraq.

Hey yo-yo....just "how" do you effect a regime change without boots on the ground?

It authorized the United States to use military force to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; Iraq did not pose ANY danger to the United States and had NO military capability as assessed by the Pentagon in 2002. Saddam had no way to employ any WMD he may have had against the U.S., and was therefore no threat. and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq." We can not unilaterally establish the U.S. as the enforcement agent for UN resolutions. Congress can not act for the UN and that section of the resolution is meaningless. I am aware that many democrats voted for the resolution predicated of the insistence of Bush that Saddam was a danger. Passage of the resolution, would NEVER have occurred had we known what we know today, did not say we had to invade Iraq. The actual act of invading was on the orders of Bush not the democrats in Congress who went along with Bush and the GOP. Bush is the ONLY reason we invaded Iraq. There was no groundswell from Congress or the American People to invade Iraq. that was BUSH! Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, including interference with weapons inspectors. The UN Weapons Inspectors were back in Iraq and had we allowed them to complete their inspection before we invaded Iraq we would have learned what we know now that Saddam did not have WMD as Bush and Cheney claimed! Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population" Although True, that did not present ANY danger to the U.S. If the Iraqi People did not want to be brutalized by Saddam, they should have removed him from power. The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight the 9/11 terrorists and those who aided or harbored them. We knew that Saddam had NOTHING to do with 9/11! That section is more BS!

You can say all the BS you want.....The above sections that you are bad-mouthing came DIRECT from the SENATE resolution on the Iraq war. So if you don't like it....talk to your senator.

why the dictator is supposed to give up and go away

Hey yo-yo....just "how" do you effect a regime change without boots on the ground?

The same way France did in 1776-- Provide help not invade. No one fought our fight to end the rule of King George the 3rd (must be something about that name George). We had no business sending American Troops to remove Saddam. That is what the people who know this region warned and their warnings have proven correct. Another month of record deaths in Iraq. The Surge IS NOT WORKING. We have lost 104 more and the Iraqi violence continues:

By RAVI NESSMAN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
May 29, 2007 6:20 AM EDT
BAGHDAD - A parked minibus packed with explosives blew up Tuesday in a busy section of central Baghdad, killing 23 people and injuring 68, police said. A second car bombing in the western part of the capital killed 15 others.

Meanwhile, three German citizens working for a German computer company were kidnapped from the Iraqi Finance Ministry in Baghdad, an Iraqi government official said.

you mean the same germany that was opposed to removal of saddam

here dictator col. gene you want a victory here it is happened on thursday


The fight reflects a trend that U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trumpeting recently to the west in Anbar province, once considered the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. Many Sunni tribes in the province have banded together to fight al-Qaida, claiming the terrorist group is more dangerous than American forces.

WWW Link


of course to get the whole story you will have to follow the link

oh and these are the sunni that are calling usa for help

How do you explain the 120 U.S. Military killed in May?

How do you explain the increase in Iraqi dead in May?

WAR

sunni are starting to relized that al quida is more dangerass than the usa is

not my words theirs

if you had read the link

also the us military is now talking to all of the combatants in iraq except al quida about a cease fire and they think they can get 80% to agree.

Reply By: danielost Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007
Sunni are starting to realized that al Qaeda is more dangerous than the USA is

The reason al-Qaeda is operating in Iraq is because of Bush and the Invasion with insufficient troop levels to prevent them from setting up operations. However the majority of the violence is still the fighting g between the Sunni and Shea for control of Iraq!

dictator col. gene can you not come up with something different you keep using the exact same words.

i can save you sometime just record everything it might take up to 30 secounds to do so

it doesn't matter why they are there right now.

the only thing that does matter is that they are there the sunni (oh and al quida is sunni) in iraq no longer want to play with al quida



there is no/little fighting going on to control iraq. AGAIN THE SHIIA ARE JUST KILLING SUNNI FOR REVENGE FOR THE TIME THAT SADDAM WAS IN POWER AND ALL OF THE DEATH THAT HE CAUSED

i know you forgot all about that didn't you. becouse all you think about is how to make bush look bad no matter what the evidence says

14 More American dead this weekend and Iraqi dead up 50% in May. Yes THIS surge IS WORKING AND MORE MAN MORE Americans AND Iraqi’s ARE BEING KILLED.

Five British were kidnapped by the terrorists and now they demand the British to STOP fighting to give them back. SOME control we have over the violence in Iraq.

war



so your saying that the total of all iraqi citizens killed has gone up 50% in may

in other words 1,000,000 iraqi citz. were killed in may. (using the mainstream and democrat figures of 2,000,000 before may) which is a bunch of crap.



about 2 years ago some terriosts kidnapped some egyptions and demanded that they take their troops home. there was only one problem they didn't have any troops in iraq

and do you really think the british are going to stop doing the right thing becouse some troops were kidnapped

would you oh thats right you would give into the demands of the enemy. becouse you think that will stop them from doing it again. it won't it will only impower them to do it again.

GO BACK TO BEING THE SUPPLY OFFICER AND LET THE REAL OFFICERS DO THE FIGHTING

and i guess that the terriosts were supposed to just stop fighting becouse of more american troops being there.


YOU AND THE DEMOCRATS(WHOM BY THE WAY LOST THEIR LITTLE WAR WITH BUSH) REALLY NEED TO START THINKING FOR YOURSELVES

in other words 1,000,000 Iraqi citz. were killed in may. (using the mainstream and democrat figures of 2,000,000 before may) which is a bunch of crap.

NO YOU ASS. The number of dead is up 50% from preceding Month to over 700. How do so many idiots Blog on this site?


YOU AND THE DEMOCRATS(WHOM BY THE WAY LOST THEIR LITTLE WAR WITH BUSH) REALLY NEED TO START THINKING FOR YOURSELVES.

The vast majority of Americans want this war to come to an end now. This was a loosing situation from day one and in over 4 1/2 years it has just gotten worse. Bush sent our military into an impossible situation with less then 1/3 the troops needed to do the job!

dictator col. gene

here let me save you a lot of trouble

you can quote me becouse this is all you ever say


it is bushes fault. the democrats didn't vote for war.



there that should help now you don't have to type anymore all you have to do is quote the two sentences above becouse that is all you ever say.

ok so there were only 350 civilians killed in may. sounds like the civilian deaths are down for last month.

but you wanted it to sound so much worse. so you wrote it the way you did to confuse everyone.

and my figuares come from the mouths of the democrat leaders in washington and your quotes.

the iraqi health people and the dod put total deaths between 40,000 and 80,000 for the war. yes that is a lot of people and i wish it wasn't necassary. but that is the price of war. how many civilians were killed in ww2 or vietname.