From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 16:56:19 MDT
Surely the funniest response I've seen to a post in a while!!!!
Love ya Jake and Joe,
Walter
Jkr438@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/1/2002 6:08:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
> joedees@bellsouth.net writes:
>
> On 1 Sep 2002 at 18:45, Jkr438@aol.com wrote:
>
> . . . doesn't belong to that same smug, snarky, snide, snotty and
> supercilious inverted cult of anti- personality that I belong to? I
> wonder what his problem is.
>
> -Jake
>
> His problem is that he is over-cautious about committing US troops,
> and underestimating concerning the nuclear threat should we not. The
> problem is, if he is wrong, the result is catastrophic. The cost
> benefit analysis (probable human cost of conventionally toppling
> Saddam vs. likelihood that if left in power, nuclear attack or
> blackmail by Saddam would result X human cost of that devastating
> consequence) is clearly in favor of pre-emptive regime change in Iraq
> as by far the more prudent course to pursue.
>
> [Jake2] Hey, maybe you've hit on something with the cost/benefit
> analysis way of thinking, I better add it to my toolbox and give it a
> whirl!! You know what we could do even better, . . . if Iraq almost
> has a nuclear weapon, then surely Iran definitely does, more of an
> economic/industrial base to work from after all. So what we should
> do, since we are sending our troops in anyway, we should get double
> duty out of the operation. . . we should invade both Iran and Iraq. I
> mean we already have troops in Afghanistan on the other side of Iran,
> we could just widen the operation there, and invade from Iraq as well,
> . . . do a kind of pincer move. We wouldn't even have to wait to
> control the cities in Iraq, I mean its pretty obvious that Saddam is
> going to let everything outside the cities go quickly, that way at the
> same time that we begin clamping down on Iraqi cities, we can launch
> an invasion of Iran (another "axis of evil power") from the Iraqi
> count! ryside at the same time that American forces which will have
> been building up in Afghanistan in the meantime, shall launch an
> invasion of Iran from that side. I mean lets not fool around here . .
> . do it right the first time, . . . or certainly should I say more
> truthfully the second time.
>
> Love,
>
> Jake
-- Walter Watts Tulsa Network Solutions, Inc. "No one gets to see the Wizard! Not nobody! Not no how!"
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