Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

Answer? You want an answer to a bunch a fantasy? To begin with there was no reason to believe that Saddamn had any WMD in 1998, nor was there any apparent link to terrorism. So your speculation that we would be fighting the 'same' people is at best specious.

Though I suppose if you like to link Palestine and Iran to terrorism and such we could explore the Zionist connection to disinformation about Iraq and examine the link between debka and propaganda.

Then again we could speculate about the ramifications of William Colby using the CIA in conjunction with the House of Saud to foment discontent among the Islamic factions in Central Asia.

Along the same lines we could speculate about Reagan in Beirut, or the need for the Iran Contra bs.

So where do you want to begin? How about Vietnam? Rumor has it that the OSS backed Ho in the war with Japan. Then abandoned him to the French. Only to end up fighting him in a war that in the end we lost. Only to end up with a country that isn't exactly the worst thing on the face of the earth. But we had to fight that war because the Pentagon lies to us right?