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[email protected] (TritonRider) wrote:
> >From: "Matt O'Toole
>
> >What do you think about spending $200B on a war over your $18B worth of annual imports? Bush went
> >to a good B-school, so surely he should be able to come up with an amortization schedule... have
> >we even paid off the last one yet?
> >
> >Matt O.
> >
>
> Considering that I, or my wife could be recalled I say it's about his sorry ass gasing the
> Kurds, invading Kuwait, threatening to kill every jew he can get his hands on etc... Is he the
> only one? No. Are we racist? Hell yeah. We have ignored much more brutal wars in Africa. Kosovo
> was a Clinton publicity stunt. We should have finished Sadam the first time, and were well on
> the way to doing it when CBS showed us finishing off a Republican Guard armored column. This
> caused all the whiny liberal cotton candy types to cry out and Bush (loser Sr.) called off the
> world. There was nothing between our Marines, the FFL and Baghdad. It would've been over,
> thousands of Kurdish kids would be alive today, but they don't count; At least to liberals. I
> had a hopeless discussion today with our local anti-war protestors. I asked them what they
> planned to do do help the Kurds, and the Shiites in Iraq if there was no war. Guess what they
> had no answers, and didn't care. The dead only count if they fit your political agenda! Bill C.
Bill, I don't recall the armored column thing you mention except that it was shown after the fact.
(By that I mean there was no live film of the thing - the coverage was seriously restricted during
that war. The Pentagon had learned something from Vietnam: when the shooting and killing are live on
TV, the public gets turned off.) I also don't really remember any huge outcry over it. Besides, when
did Bush ever care much about any public outcry over something he was doing? As far as the Kurdish
kids go, well, yes, there were and continue to be Kurdish civilian deaths. The sanctions have
resulted in plenty of deaths throughout Iraq. During the Iran-Iraq war of the 80's, both sides were
gassing each other - and both were gassing Kurds. Our long-time allies the Turks have treated (and
continue to do so) the Kurds as badly as either of the other two. No one in the area seems to care
for the Kurds... Iraq has been the most secular society in the area for years. However, since 9-11
and the W talk of war, Saddam has allowed the Muslim leaders to have some more say in the government
and in the public sector, although they are very tightly controlled. Where I've read this, the
authors have pointed out that it seems to be an attempt to gather some support from the Muslim
nations of the world if the US attacks. In other words, Saddam's "Muslimization" of Iraq is
something of a game on his part. The various groups who occupy northern Iraq (the Iraqi national
Congress, and several Kurdish factions, to name a few) have been at each other's throats for years,
slaughtering each other with regularity. The human rights situation up there is horrendous. But they
are supposed to work together to form an "interim" government after Saddam. One of the biggest
Kurdish factions are so harsh in their interpretation of the Koran they make the Taliban look like a
day at Disneyland. Some people have questioned why the Iraqi people don't take Saddam out
themselves. A report on the BBC radio news on Friday last week explained that people used to try,
but the plots always got busted. The reason was the Iraqi secret service. Not because they were so
brilliant, but they had massive coverage: between 20 and 25 percent of the population is getting
paid by them. Every plot gets infiltrated, and everyone else is afraid that their plot will get
infiltrated. So, what to do? Well, I am the first to admit I don't really know. It is a very complex
situation. I do think that the repercussions of actually going ahead with the invasion and what will
come after will be extremely high. The WTC and Bali will be just a warm-up.
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tanx, Howard
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