JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:08:10 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I recall our limiting our bombing to points
containing
radar & antiaircraft weaponry, not missions into their cities. Never mind.
The point was that our goal at that stage was, as you said, the no-fly
zone,
or containment.

We always have some bull**** goal when we bomb brown people, that
doesn't mean it is right
If you read what Europe was saying about us at the time you will see
out intent didn't really match where the bombs were falling.
We seem to have forgotten the French, Italians and Germans had already
left the reservation on Iraq long before GW showed up.
Al Jazerra was showing pictures of dead civilians to the Muslim world.

OK, but we're getting far afield here. Saddam could've been contained
forever, with little or no cost to us. Now, you can be silly and say that
our pounding of his radar installations would do nothing to stop wire
transfers of currency to terrorists, but that's another subject which has no
known end.

Can you put an actual number or range of number on your "little or no
cost to us" assertion.