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Originally posted by Colin
I said "If there had been no 9/11, there would be no plans against Saddam right now"
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I don't believe that for a minute. This was a confrontation that had to happen sooner or later.
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Originally posted by ChrisH
No one went to South Asia to help us! No one!!
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Actually, the Australians were loyal/foolish enough to do it. Why should the Europeans, who had watched one of their own get their asses kicked (on Uncle Sam's dime), rush off into insanity just because we did? And besides, if you stand in Paris or Berlin and look west, you know what lies on the horizon? NATO was hard-pressed to spare OUR OWN troops ... couldn't have afforded too many more pissing their lives away in an excercise in futility without upsetting the stategic balance.