This is the wrong war against the wrong enemy, but it's started. I can only hope it ends well, with minimal casualties to US military men and women and to the Iraqi population, both military and civilian, and that there will be no retaliatory terrorist attacks on the United States and its people. Defenses against the latter are still weak, from what I've been reading; hopefully they will be sufficient.
I also hope that the Administration makes good on all its promises to rebuild Iraq. Watching its performance in Afghanistan and remembering candidate Bush's sneer at nation-building during the campaign, I'm not all that sanguine about that happening; I hope I'm proven wrong.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 20, 2003 11:22 AMThe amount of money pledged to Iraq is something like 5-6 days worth of oil-money that they spend on food under the until-yesterday oil-for-food program.
We very well could see famine there, as some 16 million Iraqis rely on the food from that program.
Posted by: Scott at March 20, 2003 12:35 PMHeard yesterday that we sent a bunch of troops to Afghanistan. Heard it just once....
Is this the beginning of the Middle East invasion?
Did you also hear that Bush asked for money for the war and Isreal all in one breath?
Heard that just once also.....
Ms. Toxic, both of those stories are affirmative, as far as I know. By now I'm sure you've seen the NYT, which I think will have some stories about both those items.
Posted by: Linkmeister at March 21, 2003 10:14 AM