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To Cary, Zeev, and Mike--
Cary, Hans Kohn did lecture on Mein Kampf and facism, and the lectures were thrilling. Indeed, Cary, altho I agree with most of your opinions, your comments make you appear closed minded and strident. You would benefit from trying to see all aspects of opinions.
Zeev--altho I'm late, you are entirely correct that April Gillespie, our Iraq ambassador, encouraged his invasion of Kuwait. Even worse, IMO, the US must have known about the use of gas in both Halabja and against the Iranians. We were supplying Saddam Hussain intelligence and ariel photos in his war with Iran. Furthermore, the Shah had a great deal of US support in his stirring of Shia fundamentalism. And we all know that the muhadjadin were armed and trained by the US in fighting the USSR in Afghanistan. Oy!
Having said that, I still the integrity of the UN is being tested by Saddam, and that he still is a hell of lot worse than we are, even tho we aint angels. He must be required to comply with the inspection agreement or the Un will be just an advisory voice.
I also remember that when Israel bombed Saddam's nuclear facility, the UN unanimously, including the US, condemned Israel for this violation of international law. This was followed by some thank you notes.
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