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Here's what I don't get.

Remember a little thing called Operation Desert Fox which passed like a fart in the wind?

Ol' Clinton gave the EXACT same reasons for bombing Iraq that Bush is giving now. He said that Irag not only had weapons of mass destruction, but that he has used them on numerous occasion to devastating effects. He goes on to say that Iraq has continued to defy former UN resolutions and that they have had their last chance. Clinton never went back to the UN security council for another resolution. He simply went off the prior resolution which, just like happened recently, was passed 15-0 in a vote. Nobody had a problem with this. Clinton sent something near 430 cruise missiles on about 15 different targets around Iraq. Sites that Iraq wouldn't let the inspectors visit and other strategic sites.

What did all this hoopla accomplish? Nothing. Not a damned thing. Iraq continued to defy, and the Clinton administration looked the other way. Like giving a pop-knot to a car thief and saying, "I showed you" as he procedes to steal your car from your garage anyway.

Now, Bush goes to the UN and the US with the same situation...except under more dire circustances and with much more potent and damming evidence against Iraq. What happens? The same liberals who said nothing to Clinton suddenly scream like the babies they are about not having evidence...wonder when they became intelligence experts and privy to all intell that the US gets.

France pussy-foots it around with one thumb up their *** while they suck their other one, conveniently forgetting that the US is the only thing that has kept their half-a**ed excuse for a country from annialation and economic disaster, and Germany starts pretending that they didn't start two world wars which cost millions of lives.

Do any of them remember 9-11??? It was within the same week that liberals in congress and others searching for power started playing point-the-finger at everyone except for themselves. This opened a whole scandal about supposed intell which had vague references to a non-specific attack and some memos from government unknowns about the possibility of using planes as weapons. These people started fussing about "why wosen't anything done?!? Why didn't we see this coming and stop it?!?! SHAME ON YOU W!!!" Whatever.

Now these same people who made such a fuss then are making a fuss now. Except now, we have much more pressing and clear information that Saddam is working to develop weapons of mass destruction and we all know that he has no qualms about directly or indirectly using them against the United States or our interests. We have piles of information, and we're suppose to do NOTHING!?!?! If we know what we do, and we do nothing, aren't we simply inviting disaster upon ourselves?

And they scream about North Korea. Guess what. North Korea has nukes and is open about it. They want us to know, not because the want to use them against us, but because they want us to be afraid and cave into their demands. Do they like us? No. Are they completely stupid? Probably not. They know the rain of devastation we can bring to them. They just want oil, money, and food.

Iraq, on the other hand, has weapons of mass destruction and is actively pursuing nuclear capabilities and is trying to hide it. Why? That's what scares me.

It sickens me that so many politicians look out only for the next election. You know what I think? I think George W. Bush could care less if he's elected another term. Sure, it would be nice, and yes, he'll run again, but he's not going to play popularity poll games. He will do what he sees is in the best interest of our nation and the safety of our people and those blessed people in the military. He won't go in and half-a** it like Clinton did in Iraq and Somalia. He will go in, get it done, and get results. It seems that many democrats or liberals are only happy if our country suffers. They want something bad to happen so that they can play on it and get back into power. Get over it, and get with the program. Do the job you were elected to do and stop pussy-footing around. Protect our country and its interests or step aside to someone who will.

I'll step off the box now....

--nathan