Looking in Ric's Window: Iraq and the Incredible Disappearing Snoz

Hello everyone. I am a little under the weather today so I will not be babbling too long today. I was watching the news and they were debating the Iraq war again. It got me thinking. A lot of folks are saying that we should have never went in and started this war. Now I want to make sure to distinguish his war and the war in Afghanistan which was a retaliation for the 9-11 attacks. The war on Iraq was a preemptive strike. Now first of all, I want to make a couple of points. We had a signed treaty with Iraq and their government that was formed at the end of the first gulf war. Iraq violated that treaty 26 times with no retribution from us or the U.N. there were 17 resolutions passed in the U.N. that Iraq refused to adhere to. So we were justified by going into Iraq this time. Now, did they have weapons of mass destruction? Let's look at this. Iraq had W.M.D.s at one point. That is a fact. They used them on the Kurds to the north and on Iran. So there is no argument there. Did they have them when when our government claimed they did. The international community asked to look at all instillations that could have been creating or housing those types of weapons and Saddam Hussein refused to let the inspectors in. And he was obligated by the afore mentioned treaties that he signed to let the inspectors in. Well, in my opinion, that was enough to go in. Looking back should we have gone in. I am not so sure. Things are bad over there. The mismanagement of the rebuilding process has been astronomical. But, the U.S. has not had another terrorist attack on our soil since. I want to make small point here that nobody seems to bring up. Before we went into Iraq there were six terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. What... six? Yes. There car bomb at the trade centers. I know everyone remembers that. And there were three U.S. embassies bombed in Africa. U.S. embassies in foreign lands are considered by international law as U.S. soil. And the bombing of the U.S. war ship Cole. And then , of course, the attacks on 9-11. There has been no, nada, zero, zilch attacks on U.S. soil since. Maybe we should have went in and maybe we shouldn't. There is no way to know what the alternative would have done.

In the news that interested me:

A few days ago a teenage boy was decapitated by the Batman ride at Six Flags over Georgia. The boy scaled two 6 foot fences to supposedly retrieve a hat that he lost while riding the ride. Six Flags said that both fences were labeled with signs that warned of the danger. You know... I'm not the brightest guy in the world but if you want to go somewhere and you have to climb two fences that have signs that say Danger of Decapitation....... DON'T GO THERE!!!

After speculations by the media if the new Large Hadron Collider is safe after rumors escaped that the machine could create a black hole, the leading scientist in charge of the collider came out and said that the chances of creating a black hole is about 1 in 50,000,000. That doesn't seem to bad. But, if they are wrong, no body will be able to tell them" Ha Ha. You were wrong!" .... well, because we will be dead!

LaDonna and James Davis held a press conference yesterday to announce that their pet chimpanzee escaped in the the Southern Californian Forest. I mean you would be upset too. The Chimp is obviously very close with its owners, it is domesticated and can not fend for itself in the wild, and IT HAS YOUR NOSE! Come on! I am more concerned about why this guy went on national tv without strapping on a snoz before hand. Can you say " EEEWWwwwwww!"