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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
North Korea does not have ICBMs. 
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Someone who is former military--I believe Delta Intel--that works in Washington DC in 2004 told me that N. Korea has nukes capable of reaching the western seaboard of the US...
Now, I don't know how true that is or even if I wanna know the truth... But either way, too many lunatics have nukes and are too trigger happy to use them on innocent, untrained, civilians...
As far as Iraq as a "moral imperative" for war against them... Well, I agree there is geopolitical motivation behind it... And the removal of the Baathist regime because they were rather slimy with the backdoor, backroom, UN-EU deals that we will never know how many Euros were paid out... But who gets the $$$ now??? Because ever since we started fighting in Iraq, all deals and bets came off the table...
But a "moral imperative"? Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that... Maybe you have more sociopolitical understanding of these sorts of things than I, but I know what I read, see, hear and talk to with folks that are directly affected on both sides of this war...
Besides, our discussion may need to be toward another topic, because we are off topic...
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KSigkid--
That's very interesting about what you say about Vietnam...
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I think the issue with a lot of angry greiving parents--aside from the fact that many of them are probably the main ones that protested the Vietnam War back in the day--is that their kids thought that in order to pay for school, they'd just sign up for the military to get the money and nothing will happen... I AM NOT SAYING ALL OF THEM... I just think that SOME kids and parents for that matter had a jaded idea of what it means to be in the military... Whether those ideas get squashed at boot camp? I have NADA authority to speak on that. But, I think pre-9/11, some kids and parents had jaded views on what it meant to be in the military... That's just my opinion...
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