Kaleea,

Slightly bemused about the content of your post above - what on earth has it got to do with the subject of this thread. If it is the tacit admission of the realisation that Saddam Hussein, and the Ba'athist Regime, has to be removed from power, then all well and good.

But looking at the path taken to deliver that statement about 90% of it is pluralist-anti-Bush/US administration, the bulk of which relating to latter is based on 100% 20 x 20 hindsight, that completely ignores the world situation at the time the events alluded to took place.

Examples:

"...nobody seemed to mind when dubbya's pappy helped put sadsack insane into office "over there."

Wish people didn't resort to the childish name calling - Neither George Bush senior or the CIA put Saddam Hussein into power over there. The CIA did assist the Ba'ath regime in 1963 - the alternative AT THE TIME was considered to be much worse.

"...a dozen years ago, pappy couldn't undo what he'd done."

I believe that it is generally acknowledged that the UN mandate governing the Gulf War of 1991 was to liberate Kuwait - it did not sanction, nor require the total conquest of Iraq - as part of the cease-fire agreement that ended "Desert Storm" hostilities, Iraq was required to disarm.

Grounds please for statements such as:

"..dubbya has his head set on new-kyew-ler-ing another country,..."

and,

"...dubbya is gonna "newk" no matter what."

I have seen no evidence whatsoever for either of those contentions. Possible reasons for making them may be based on two well known principles that would be adhered to by anyone sitting in the Oval Office charged with the responsibilities of that office:

1. On entering into any conflict or war situation, nobody provides their enemies with a definitive list of what weapons may or may not be used against them.

2. The use, or more accurately and correctly, the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons, has been the standard NATO deterrent against, threatened or potential use of chemical/biological weapons since the mid-sixties.