I don't see this going any where good...But I will give it a shot.
I, personally, did not "pity" Saddam and Iraq. They were strong enough to be responsible for 1-2 million people getting killed (including the use of chemical weapons on Kurds and Iranians), invaded a couple of nearby countries in two separate wars, was supplying support for the first World Trade Center bombing (supplied people, intelligence, training, money, etc.). Appear to have developed tactics of using carry-on weapons to take over civilian air liners and trained the terrorists for 9/11 using a Russian Jet Liner in an Iraq military reservation). Had and worked with and funded Palestinian terrorists in Baghdad for something like 10-20 years.
And Israel is still fighting the Terrorist Leader Arafat (does that make Palestine a Terrorcrascy?) that invented Airline Hijacking that our Saudi "friends" used on 9/11. And Saddam/Iraq was openly giving homicide bomber checks to Palestinians that blew themselves up in Israel. Are there any UN resolutions against Palestine?
There was about dozen and a 1/2 UN resolutions against Iraq saying that they did not comply with the cease-fire that Saddam himself signed. The US Congress voted something like 98-zip for Clinton to do a "regime change" in Iraq (and he just about expended our stock of cruise missiles in his attack on Iraq). There were no UN resolutions to support Clinton/NATO killing thousands of our former Serbian allies.
Afghanistan is no longer a base for Osama bin Laden to train, plan, fund, and supply support for International Terrorism. The fact that it is still a 12 century culture in a 21st century world is not the fault of the US.
In 2003, International terrorism is at a
34 year low (lowest since 1969).
Because of the new focus on terror and their supporting countries we now have:
<ul type="square">[*]North Korea no longer getting nuclear aid from the US--is US oil and food aid also stopped? Their nuclear weapons development program has been "outed" (in violation of the treaty signed with President Clinton which supplied aid, oil, and a nuclear reactor to North Korea--can you spell "dumb idea"?).
[*]North Korea talking directly with the US instead of with/through third countries.
[*]US interdicting North Korean missile shipments to third party countries.
[*]Pakistan's role in nuclear proliferation of technology and uranium centrifuges published and stopped.
[*]Hundreds of thousands of pounds of nuclear processing equipment shipped from Pakistan to Libya stopped on the high seas and redirected to the US.
[*]Iran has now admitted to a nuclear weapons program and has begun to allow international inspection of its facilities.
[*]Libya's leader allowing the inspection of nuclear and chemical weapons plants--and promising to dismantle them because he "is afraid of the US and does not want to be involved in Arab "liberation" any more" because they are so self-destructive.
[*]Nominally supportive regimes of terrorism (such as Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, Malaysia) are now being attacked by their own (or neighboring) Islamic Terrorists. Having bombings/shootings/killings in their own countries is already changing their views on terrorism enough to where they are now cooperating with the US.
[*]Other countries (such as China and Russia) which have historically supported the use of "asymmetrical warfare" against the US are fighting their own Islamic terrorists and (somewhat?) working with the US.
[*]Israel dismantled the French supplied and built Iraqi reactor before there was an "imminent threat."
[*]The US is no longer treating Terrorism as a matter for "law enforcement".
[*]The US has pulled down the "walls" between the FBI and CIA regarding the sharing of information on Terrorism that was put in place during the Clinton Presidency).
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I guess I will stop here for now... Other things that need to be done.
-Bill