Dec.15, 2003:  PoliSat .Com's Political Satire/ Commentary   Daily Update # 01·· ™©·2003··
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Saddam being captured leaves Dean not enraptured.·

On learning Saddam had been captured
not only was Dean not enraptured
he also eschewed
the common-sense view
that danger's reduced by his capture.

Perhaps he'd prefer to amend
complaints made again and again
like dog-in-the-manger
contentions that dangers
were worse 'cause Saddam wasn't penned.

He also contended the war
in money is costing us more
than what we'd have borne
if Bush had foresworn
to topple the Baathists by war.

Instead he should focus his wrath
on whoever coached him in math,
since costs for maintaining
deployments restraining
Saddam would not be by warfare surpassed.

And further, his theory ignores
the fact that the size of the force
deployed to "contain"
Saddam would inflame
the lust for more "Towers" destroyed.

I listened to Howard Dean's specious contentions in his speech today that neither the toppling nor the capture of Saddam has made us any "safer" and that employment of military force to topple him imposed upon us far greater costs than the costs of  merely using threats of force to contain and/or restrain him.  The speciousness of such contentions should be obvious to anyone not blinded by ideological hatred for Bush.  First, to contend that Saddam's capture does not reduce danger is to ignore the common sense perception that victims of a police state become less reluctant to collaborate with those who toppled the police state once the capture of the head of the police state makes it clear he can't return to power.  Second, his contentions today fly in the face of his prior contentions reciting our prior failure to capture Saddam as one of the factors increasing dangers to our troops, to our allies and to us.  Third, his contention that the war exposed us to greater costs than would have been by merely using military deployments to contain and/or restrain Saddam reveals that math is not his strong suite since it's not reasonably in dispute that the costs of continuing to maintain the 250,000-plus size force in the middle east to contain/restrain Saddam would have been greater than the costs of the war to topple him (not to mention less effective).  Finally, and most important, his argument ignores two other factors:  (A) that a policy seeking to "contain" or "restrain" or deter Saddam's dangerous impulses and discourage him from temptations to collaborate with terrorists against us would have required indefinite deployment of a military force in the Middle East that would have dwarfed the size of the pre-9-11 force, deployment of which had been a major factor motivating the 9-11 terrorists, and (B) that unlike a war to topple Saddam, such "containment" policy would increase motivations for more terrorist attacks against us without affording us the opportunity to convert a hostile power into a potential asset and force the terrorists to respond to our initiatives rather than vice versa.  It's the difference between the purely defensive tactics of Tic-Tac-Toe and the strategies of chess as illustrated by my November 12, 2003 commentary.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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