O/U: how many times

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Common sense ought to always trump everything else.

I don't care what the "facts" said one way or another - or if the information was bad or not.

Common sense suggests that even if Suddam didn't have these weapons - he needed to posture as though he did for the security of his own Government.
There is no way in hell Suddam, or anyone in his Govt really could have believed we would invade him.
Put yourself in his head - Suddam and his Baath party stand for mostly everything bin Laden hates - bin Laden attacks America - how would that enemy on enemy attack logically trigger America to invade Iraq? It doesn't make sense to him.

Obviously, Hussein thought America was just using 9/11 as an excuse to further crack down on him....but that they obviously wouldn't invade.

If he thinks that - he has to state publicly that he doesn't have anything and know that no one trusts his words. However, it is important that he must posture with his actions to suggest he does have something.

You can't expect a guy in his position, who doesn't believe his country will be invaded by us, to want it proven that he has nothing in the way of force to defend himself against other threats in the region.

Once again - everyone gets all caught up in things like facts, expert knowledge, past occurrences etc. - when you simply need only read up on the person and his situation, put yourself in his shoes, and use common sense.

OK this post takes the prize.

COMMON SENSE. Saddam used common sense...

There is no way Saddam thought we would invade.
ARE YOU SERIOUS?

WTF happened in 1990?
He did not think we would invade...
ANd he uses common sense...

You can put yourself in the shoes
of this man honestly (besides the fact
he is dead as well as brain dead)?
You think he thought
like you?
Saddam throughout his reign was
extraordinarily bad at making rational
decisions. Do you remember him invading
Iran, possibly the biggest blunder of all time
for his country except that we bailed him out.
The only thing this man understood was to
annhilate all opposition from within. He was
very good at this. The rest....SWEET JESUS!

Putting yourself in someone else's head
using your reasoning is a very dangerous
practice and flat out stupid.

omg......

Does anyone remember the History of
this man? Please help me.

If you were just kidding I apologize profusely.
In fact I apologize anyway for coming on strong
but honestly...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Putting yourself in someone else's head
using your reasoning is a very dangerous
practice and flat out stupid.

So you (and everyone else) say.....

But, if you look at the scoreboard at the end of the day........

I like how Morty calls him a psycho! All of these 3rd world dictators are corrupt, sh!t eating scum who will do what they have to do to benefit them most.

I think it isn't as hard as you think to think like them.

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

So you (and everyone else) say.....

But, if you look at the scoreboard at the end of the day........

I like how Morty calls him a psycho! All of these 3rd world dictators are corrupt, sh!t eating scum who will do what they have to do to benefit them most.

I think it isn't as hard as you think to think like them.

Maybe within their own country.
He was very good at terrorizing
everyone around him and the entire
population.

But the man had not a clue as to
how other countries would react to
his little ventures outside Iraq.

He surrounded himself with YES men
and then in his own bizarre way got
his country into so many problems
before the annhilation. So many times
he made huge errors in judgement concerning
foreign affairs.

Sorry for the overreaction.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by pgardn

But the man had not a clue as to
how other countries would react to
his little ventures outside Iraq.

He surrounded himself with YES men
and then in his own bizarre way got
his country into so many problems
before the annhilation. So many times
he made huge errors in judgement concerning
foreign affairs.

Duh!!!!

Which is why he would mis-calculate about us invading Iraq.

You are doing a better job of supporting my position (which I told Indian Charlie about before the war - and has since proven true) than you are dispelling it.

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Duh!!!!

Which is why he would mis-calculate about us invading Iraq.

You are doing a better job of supporting my position (which I told Indian Charlie about before the war - and has since proven true) than you are dispelling it.

You posted put yourself in his shoes and use
common sense. I dont see how one can do that.
We had no idea what he thought.

If you think that is making your point...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by pgardn

We had no idea what he thought.

It's very simple.

He couldn't have possibly believed the US would invade....so he couldn't tip his hand to all the threats in his region how vulnerable he was.

If you can only learn to think like a corrupt, 3rd world, sh!t eating dictator you'd see how obvious this was.

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

It's very simple.

He couldn't have possibly believed the US would invade....

Why could he not possibly believe?
He got invaded in 1990?
We TOLD him we were going to invade...

I dont get the reasoning at all.

And just dont get how you know
what he believed and did not believe.
For all we know, he knew we would invade
and knew we would get into a quagmire and
never find him.

Playing the hindsight game is too easy
and done far too often.