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"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hussein isn't a terrorist, he's a dictator. He is on the Al Qaeda hit
list,
> just like every single other regime in the region.
No he's not. In UBL's last audio tape he held fast to the middle east doctrine of "the enemy of my
enemy is my friend" by labeling Saddam an infidel but calling for his charges to work with Saddam
and against the US.
>
> The only government which met Al Qaeda's standard was The Taliban.
And UAE and Yemen, albeit to a lesser extent.
> Al Qaeda's ultimate goal is to rid the region of all the current regimes
and
> make the Middle East into one big pan-Islamist state.
Finally, an accurate assessment, although UBL has the ability to recognize that sometimes one is
best served by using tactics that appear to firmly held principles in order to accomplish long term
goals. Thus the call to work with Hussein.
> He isn't a threat to the United States.
Pure sophistry. Yes, his missiles can only hit his neighbors but nations no longer need ICBMs to
deliver payload across an ocean. Were it still so, then you would be correct. It's not. If Iraq can
smuggle oil out by the tankerfull, which the world knows he has been doing for years, then he can
smuggle a crate of something virulent.
>
> All of you dumbasses who make Saddam a threat to the United States make me laugh. He (even with
> our help) lost a war to Iran for God's Sake.
The US did not ally with Saddam to defeat Iraq. The US aided Saddam to achieve a stalemate. There
was no side to back for victory. The US recognized that if either side won it would be bad. A
stalemate was the strategic aim. And it was achieved.
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> Hussein isn't a terrorist, he's a dictator. He is on the Al Qaeda hit
list,
> just like every single other regime in the region.
No he's not. In UBL's last audio tape he held fast to the middle east doctrine of "the enemy of my
enemy is my friend" by labeling Saddam an infidel but calling for his charges to work with Saddam
and against the US.
>
> The only government which met Al Qaeda's standard was The Taliban.
And UAE and Yemen, albeit to a lesser extent.
> Al Qaeda's ultimate goal is to rid the region of all the current regimes
and
> make the Middle East into one big pan-Islamist state.
Finally, an accurate assessment, although UBL has the ability to recognize that sometimes one is
best served by using tactics that appear to firmly held principles in order to accomplish long term
goals. Thus the call to work with Hussein.
> He isn't a threat to the United States.
Pure sophistry. Yes, his missiles can only hit his neighbors but nations no longer need ICBMs to
deliver payload across an ocean. Were it still so, then you would be correct. It's not. If Iraq can
smuggle oil out by the tankerfull, which the world knows he has been doing for years, then he can
smuggle a crate of something virulent.
>
> All of you dumbasses who make Saddam a threat to the United States make me laugh. He (even with
> our help) lost a war to Iran for God's Sake.
The US did not ally with Saddam to defeat Iraq. The US aided Saddam to achieve a stalemate. There
was no side to back for victory. The US recognized that if either side won it would be bad. A
stalemate was the strategic aim. And it was achieved.