polly-tics
Oct. 5th, 2002 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoA few impertinent questions from this self-identified conservative:
* Yer right, Mr. Mouthpiece-of-the-Cabinet Man -- Saddam Hussein has ruthlessly killed lots of people. So, umm... what may we infer from the fact that he hasn't used weapons of mass destruction since the Gulf "War"? If he had them, wouldn't he be using them?
* Remember the Israeli bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, back in 1981? The nuclear reactor that to this day doesn't work because of that bombing... which is why if Saddam does get nukes, it'll because he purchased fissile material, and not made it on his own? Right. So... what may we infer from the fact that the Israelis haven't made one move toward bombing Iraq for over two decades? Why is Israel's biggest worry about Iraq the possibility of being hit as a proxy -- as a substitute for direct retaliation against the US -- should we attack Iraq?
* Why is it the US Cabinet seems more afraid of letting inspectors into Iraq and finding nothing, than the Iraqis appear to be afraid that said inspectors will find anything? In other words, why is the US more resistent to the idea of inspectors than Iraq is?
* When Bush is directed by the Cabinet to say, "We will disarm" Hussein... shouldn't at least some evidence be presented that Hussein has the relevant arms? And wouldn't that evidence best be gathered by, um... inspectors? Wouldn't it be embarrassing to send the Army to Iraq, and find nothing? Or is the Army going to be directed to borrow a few prosecutorial techniques from the Rampart Division of the LAPD?
* Yer right, Mr. Mouthpiece-of-the-Cabinet Man -- Saddam Hussein has ruthlessly killed lots of people. So, umm... what may we infer from the fact that he hasn't used weapons of mass destruction since the Gulf "War"? If he had them, wouldn't he be using them?
* Remember the Israeli bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, back in 1981? The nuclear reactor that to this day doesn't work because of that bombing... which is why if Saddam does get nukes, it'll because he purchased fissile material, and not made it on his own? Right. So... what may we infer from the fact that the Israelis haven't made one move toward bombing Iraq for over two decades? Why is Israel's biggest worry about Iraq the possibility of being hit as a proxy -- as a substitute for direct retaliation against the US -- should we attack Iraq?
* Why is it the US Cabinet seems more afraid of letting inspectors into Iraq and finding nothing, than the Iraqis appear to be afraid that said inspectors will find anything? In other words, why is the US more resistent to the idea of inspectors than Iraq is?
* When Bush is directed by the Cabinet to say, "We will disarm" Hussein... shouldn't at least some evidence be presented that Hussein has the relevant arms? And wouldn't that evidence best be gathered by, um... inspectors? Wouldn't it be embarrassing to send the Army to Iraq, and find nothing? Or is the Army going to be directed to borrow a few prosecutorial techniques from the Rampart Division of the LAPD?
