SERIOUS QUESTION--CAN ANYONE ANSWER IT?

[swinney]

1. SADDAM THE TARGET
2. SADDAM IN BAGHDAD
3.WHY WAS IT NECESSARY TO ATTACK CITIES ALL OVER A LARGE NATION WHEN TARGET WAS IN ONE CITY?

WAS IT DESIRE TO PROVE OUR POWER? WAS IT TO DISPLAY "SHOCK AND AWE"?

WHY WILL NOT THE PRESS ASK THIS QUESTION?

[Tripper11]

1. One possible answer....

OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL!!!!!!!

It's not just under Baghdad....it's all over the country.

[morningtheft]

2. defense...defense$$$$

Need to use up as many bombs as possible and need to destroy the infrastructure in order to hand out the no-bid contracts.

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. .

the more bombs that are dropped, the more $$$ needs to be reimbursed to Lockheed Martin from Iraqi oil money.

It's like, how much money do you want to earn? (Bush to company evecs.)
$5 billion,
okay, then lets drop 5,000 $1,000,000 bombs.

[skypilot]

3. Thank you for asking that question

I always thought that with every bomb we dropped in Iraq we were announcing to the world that our intelligence was for shit. "Let's bomb here...and here...and here. Damn, still didn't get him."

[leftofthedial]

5. Halliburton can't make any money in Baghdad

they need the area around Tikrit, the southern third of the country and all the pipelines in between and connecting to other countries.

[LuCifer]

6. WHY WILL NOT THE PRESS ASK THIS QUESTION? you ask???

BECAUSE, THERE IS ***NO*** LIBERAL MEDIA.

And, the next rightwing s-bag that says "WHINE WHINE BITCH BITCH MOAN MOAN, OH THE LIBERAL COMMIE PINKO FAGIT MEDIA, WAAAAAAAAAH, THEY JUST WILL NOT STOP MAKING FUN OF YOUR BELOVED GEORGE W. BUSH. WAAAAAAAAAAH." I am going to take them by the back of the head, and put their head by my butt after I have eaten NOTHING but food that gives me mad wicked gas, and I am going to make them enjoy my fart!!!!!! BASTARDS!!!!

I hope all you defense nuts are happy that the UN building in Iraq got blown to smitherens. What are we up to, what, 100 US soliders PER DAY being killed? Wonderful. F you Bush and all your special friends. Piece of CRAP. And THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS WONDERFUL E*CON*OMY, HALF MY FRIENDS ARE OUT OF WORK, FILLING OUT JOB AP. AFTER JOB AP. AND NOT GETTING ONE CALL. Oh this is such BULLSHIT.

Like Bill Hicks said BEST: "Would you please let the aliens land. They might be here to pick me up."

Lu Cifer

[Hippo_Tron]

7. Here's why

1) Saadam was not necessarilly in Baghdad. If Saadam Hussein was an easy person to kill, Clinton would've done it.

2) The war was not just about Saadam it was about getting rid of the entire regime and making putting a new government into power. Even if he and his two sons had surrendered and left the country in the 48 hours Bush gave them, we still would've sent the troops in to secure the country not just Baghdad. If an enemy invaded America and just took washington DC but didn't move the troops anywhere else we'd just set up the government somewhere else.

3) Even if we had proof Saadam was in Baghdad you can't just drop bombs all over the city too many civilians would die, therefore you need to get ground troops and tanks into the city. There's two ways in, land and air and you can't land airplanes in a city controlled by your enemy now can you.

[maggrwaggr]

8. uh, I think it's known as an "invasion"

Saddam wasn't the target. Iraq was. These guys have been wanting to invade the country for a long long time.

It's not like BFEE liked the people who would take charge if just Saddam was killed. Let's see, there were the sons ... then the generals ....

Oh yeah, then there was all the oil they wanted for Halliburton et al.