Maggie's Farm

"Operation Iraqi Freedom"

Was Saddam manufacturing WMDs? We all remember the long long buildup to war that allowed Saddam to move "something" out of country. Every day thousands of trucks made that trip between Saddam's weapons factories and Beqaa Valley in Syria. What do you think was in those trucks? What did Saddam hide as the UN created a delay to allow him to hide his secrets. What was less televised was that Russia flew in multiple cargo planes every day for a couple of years as they dismantled biological weapons factories so their fingerprints would be on Saddam's WMD efforts.

When the U.S. troops arrived they did find massive but empty factories and warehouses which had been built by the Dutch, Germans and French to manufacture WMDs. That was why France and Germany opposed the war because they were using Saddam's oil money to build Saddam's military might. The U.S. troops did find 550 tons of uranium yellow cake stored at a massive underground facility that was built to manufacture nuclear weapons.

The Israelis knew what Saddam was doing and they were themselves preparing to invade Iraq before 9/11. The U.S. held them back because they were afraid it would precipitate a larger war in the Middle East. Right or wrong that possibility was part of the reason that the U.S. chose to invade Iraq after Iraq massively failed to uphold their part of the treaty rather than let Israel declare war in that ME hotspot.

Far more children die from riding a bicycle than school shootings. Are they any less dead? Why no marches to ban bicycles or at least not allow anyone under 21 to ride them?

Far more children die from drowning in swimming pools. Are they too any less dead? Why not demand no swimming until you reach age 21.

Most childhood deaths are from children driving while texting. Are they any less dead? THAT is where adults have failed children.

If you want to reduce school shooting then improve mental health care.

Are you saying that a law against cancer or a law preventing cancer before age 21 would prevent those deaths? Preventing kids from riding bicycles would indeed prevent deaths while riding bicycle. I'm not sure your elevator goes up past the 2nd floor. I am very serious. I want to know why we don't go for the real preventable deaths that threaten our children? Going after guns is a political stunt. The right to own and bear arms is sacrosanct and enshrined in the constitution and cannot/should not be infringed. Why is the left playing in the little pools of these children's blood trying to take away the civil rights of law abiding citizens???