Re: Al Gore on apple board now! Apple is going down the tubes.

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Greg Buchner" <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote
>
> I doubt we would have done anything to Osama unless we invaded
> Afghanistan much earlier.  And there wasn't any reason to do so before
> 9/11.
>
> > Minor oversite on appleman's part... we AREN"T BOMBING OSAMA...
> >
> > To paraphrase
> >
> > If Bush the elder 'wasn't such a coward and had killed' SADDAM 'and
> > not just lobbed some cruise missles at his camp from a far.'
>
> The Saudi's didn't want Saddam gone at that time.  They wanted him as a
> buffer between them and Iran.  However Iran's political climate is
> changing a bit with the younger generation and it's not as bad now as it
> was in 1991.
>
> One of the US plans was to go all the way to Baghdad and take out the
> main forces of Iraq instead of the low-quality soldiers that were for
> the most part left on the line.  But the Saudi's nixed that plan.
>

That's pretty reasonable. I might quibble with a few details, but it's a
rare pleasure to read a post on this topic from someone who has the Big
Picture.
It seems like most people make up their mind first, then ignore any facts
that confilct with their view.
-Paul