Should we bomb/strike Iraq

[Bill Gold]

That's right they can't reach us. Who they can reach is his neighbors and Israel. What happens if he chooses to attack Kuwait again, or Saudi Arabia. His massive army could defeat those countries easily. This time however when we go to counterattack he sets off several nuclear weapons and destroys and kills thousands of American Soldiers. That's the threat. Not that he will attack us, but that he will use it as a shield against us.
-Jim Giacchi

If Saddam were to attack Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, or any other country for that matter it would only be a matter of days before American/British/etc. airpower leveled the power structure of Iraq, along with quite a few Iraqi civilians. No doubt about it. The only lives we’d be risking would be the lives of the pilots flying through the air. If Iraq were to fire missiles into Israel (biological/nuclear/or otherwise), I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel unilaterally unleashed its arsenal against Iraq in response. Israel has a history of striking back at foreign aggression with two or more times the initial force of its foe.

This was caused by the eviromentalist who haven't allowed a new power plant or refinery to be built in twenty years. That's who you can blame for the energy crisis. Your lucky it isn't worse.
-Jim Giacchi

Your ignorance is painful to witness. You are correct, we don’t like to ruin our environment here in California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. We love our beautiful land out here. But not building power plants, nuclear reactors, or drilling for oil didn’t lead California into its fake “electricity shortage.” It was the work of former Republican Governor, Pete Wilson as well as companies like Enron and the lack of aid from President Bush. Former Governor Pete Wilson helped push a deregulation bill through CA legislature in the early 1990’s. This bill paved the way for private companies like Enron to charge whatever they deemed “market value” was, without any governmental oversight. Enron and others began to constrict their supplies and choke off our electricity causing rolling blackouts while raising the prices of electricity by up to 800% (yes, eight hundred percent) in some places, and caused quite a bit of damage to the high tech industry, as well as other industries in CA. There was no shortage of electricity, Enron was just bending the hose like a kid would do while his/her parents would be trying to water the lawn. President Bush had the ability to call off his buddies at Enron, and force them to back off of the price gouging. Instead, he (Bush) decided to let capitalism run its course. The masses were swindled, as is what often happens in capitalist societies, but I’ll refrain from going any farther with this train of thought. If you want to continue this conversation, start another thread. But I’m offended that a person ~3,000 miles away is trying to tell me that he knows more about CA than I do. How dare you, sir.

As for the 5-8 buff guys taking over a plane, unarmed, 130 passengers (fighting for their lives mind you) versus 8, thoses odds tend to favor the passengers don't you think?
- tjrage_25

Not all flights are full. I’ve been on quite a few Southwest flights which have only had a handful of people. Some with maybe only 30 people maximum, and quite a few being elderly. I think that it’s still very easy to take over a plane if someone wanted to do it. Even if there were 130 passengers on a flight… what’s stopping Al Queda from putting 50 terrorists on a flight? It’s not like they lack the funds or the people to do it.

Where shall I begin?

First, I want to say that I <3 Bill.
-Michael Krass

Thanks Michael. You make some wonderful points in your posts. /me applauds

Awww...Michael and Bill are defintely my boys in this thread, even if they beat me to all the points I want to make. Could it be the liberalizing affect of college? who knows...their arguments just make sense to me.
-Doanie8

Thanks, once again, for the kind words Kristina.

On another note… huge sigh of relief finding out that I didn’t misinterpret Ian’s comments. A tout a l’heure.

-Bill