Mr. pResident please answer these two simple questions.

[NicFed]

"Was Iraq a direct and eminent threat to Israel? If it was, why didn’t Israel take action?"

We are all idiots!
Left Wing, Right Wing, the media, all of us are… idiots.
If Saddam was even a remote threat to anyone except a rival Arab or Islamic state, the badest military in the Middle East, Israel, would have killed that threat. We all fell in the lying well. Some of us clawing and scratching at the wet, jagged and slippery walls. A lot of us going along for the ride - willingly. We all fell for a fuckin colossal crock of shit. A financially driven hostile take over.
If the USA was to invade Israel today:
Israel has nuclear weapons; Israel does not belong to any significant nuclear treaty. Israel can deliver nuclear weapons by land and sea. Nuclear armed Israel has a formidable and extremely well trained conventional military machine. Example: they have the best fighter-bombers in the world. (F-15I) Substitute Israel for Iraq and you would be seeing unparalleled sophistication of warfare. Our military losses, without nukes being used, would be in the tens of thousands, our economy would be crippled.

Iraq would have needed to increase its military budget ten fold for the next 30 years just to approach Israel’s present day level of military leverage.
Israel is top dog over there; it would have taken out anything remotely approaching a real threat from Saddam.

Keep an eye on Iran’s reactors.

[realFedUp]

1. Welcome NicFed

I'm sending this over to GD....

rfu, moderator

[Wetzelbill]

2. Interestingly enough the Former Ambassador to Oman told me

that Iran's reactors may be a target for Israel sometime in the not so distant future. Sorta like the Iraqi reactors were in the 80's.

Being that the ol' U.S. is stretched militarily right now and we still have two more "Axis of Evil" buddies to do bad things to Israel doing some proxy business for us in Iran is a pretty viable scenario.

[morebunk]

3. We are the United States of Israel...don't forget it!

Everything happening now is a testament to that fact.

[jbfam4]

4. Did you send this

to your congress rep and senators? What about your local paper?

[NicFed]

5. Working on that.

I'll clean it up and refine it alittle more, I'm always looking for constructive critisism. I sent this to my reps yesterday.

Please do not approve the Presidents request for the extra $20 billion in the $87 billion request. This $20 billion will only go into our fantastically sophisticated industrial/commercial/military complex. It will be used to further learn and refine the techniques and technology of large scale urban pacification and surveillance. Using our military this way is not in our national interest, or keeping with our national ideals.