Reply #9: Please forgive me for very politely disagreeing [View All]

[mikehiggins]

I think this will ultimately hurt Bush more than anyone else.

If the anti-occupation violence continues unabated one of the coalitions talking points--recalcitrant Baathists--goes by the boards. Now that Saddam is in coalition/Iraqi hands, the justification for the remaining coalition forces loses whatever legitimacy it claimed at first.

Clearly, if the goal was to bring down Saddam and his regime, THAT mission is now uncontrovertably accomplished (Where's an aircraft carrier when you need one?). Why remain?

As the underpinnings for this misguided adventure in jingoism crumble things begin to look more and more like a bald-faced attempt to seize Iraq's oil resources, a charge the resistance has made over and over.

I think the all of the careers of all of those officers who's negligence allowed Saddam to be brought in alive are about to end.

For heaven's sake, he had a couple of rifles in that hole. Didn't anyone in the raiding party have an iota of imagination?

Think of all the medals that could have been awarded if Saddam had been brought down in a bitter firefight like his sons and that teenaged nephew were. What were they thinking?