Rick_O_Shea678 wrote:
oChaos.Haze wrote: On a side note, does anyone else see the futility of trying to fight a war as the "good guys"?
"Good guys" don't invade other countries.
oChaos.Haze wrote: But since we made the first move...
As the Bard would say...ay, there's the rub. Bush violated one of the basic tenets of American diplomacy, he invaded another country. Notwithstanding short and forgettable (but still regrettable) episodes like Grenada, the United States does not do this. They subvert in other ways, yes, but they've always held a moral high ground about invading other people. It's always been their trump card. Peace & democracy, peace & democracy. It's the two things US diplomacy has always been about (and free markets, but that's less obvious). Bush's invasion flies in the face of the entire American diplomactic tradition.
As to the OP, there won't be a military draft for this war. The US will pull out, or get others to send in more troops, well before a draft in enacted.
missed that whole exchange, but you've forgotten a few steps, we didn't invade, cliff's notes version is something like this
iraq invades kuwait, declares intention to own everything from egypt to pakistan
kuwait asks west for help, as does saudi arabia
bin laden propositions SA declaring his forces can protect them from iraq
SA chooses to go with the coalition forces of desert shield/storm, spearheaded by the US
iraq is pushed back to baghdad, and surrenders
hussein is allowed to stay in power so long as he follows the terms of the surrender treaty
hussein ignores said terms for more than a decade
after waiting over a decade for the UN to enforce the surrender treaty, the US along with
3 dozen other nations decide to enforce said treaty and call hussein's bluff
hussein is the bad guy, not george bush, despite what all those really cool stand-up comics turned political experts say