X-Message-Number: 19709 Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:00:58 -0400 From: Stephen Ritger <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #19700 - #19707 References: <> --Boundary_(ID_OeYbqrK3EGjngluEcWjRJA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > "After 9/11, much of the Islamic world repudiated > bin Laden and his actions. Another Iraq war would > go a long way to proving, in the minds of many > Muslims, that bin Laden was right all along. > The fires of terrorism that would follow this are > unimaginable." > Actually, I believe just the opposite...the radical Islamic fundamentalists, who are the greatest current threat to our national security, see the United States as weak and decadent, and will continue to attack us unless we smack them down so hard that they will think twice before dicking with us again. Removing Saddam from power will go a long way towards this, and will be accomplished fairly quickly and easily once we make a commitment to really act and not just saber-rattle. Anyone who thinks that Saddam just stopped producing WMD on his own accord is naive in the extreme. We have numerous scientists who have defected from Iraq over the years, who tell us that Saddam's vigorous WMD programs continue unabated. The United States cannot, and will not, just sit idly by and let Saddam Insane become the supermarket to the terrorist world. He has to go, NOW! As a person of German ancestry, I am shocked, appalled, and dismayed by Germany's attitude towards war with Iraq. Their government acts as if there is no danger. What's it gonna take to convince them, a missile loaded with anthrax or smallpox lobbed into Berlin??? There is no reasoning or negotiating with terrorists. The only language they understand is FORCE, so it is FORCE that they must be met with. They are like a virus infecting the planet, and must be utterly destroyed, for the good of the future of the United States and the world. I, for one, want my children and their children to grow up safe and free. Just my .02... Steve --Boundary_(ID_OeYbqrK3EGjngluEcWjRJA) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19709