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To: KLP who wrote (46994)	9/26/2002 4:42:55 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Hi KLP; Re: "What on earth makes you think this....? Especially when people of both parties think the opposite?" It's a demonstrable fact that there are plenty of Democrats and Republicans who think the same as I do. Hell, people all over the world doubt that Iraq is a threat. Re: "How is terror of one sort the opposite of terror of another sort???" It's traditional US policy to ignore the actions of despotic nations when those actions are on the side of the United States. There are innumerable examples of this, the most important one for the case at hand being the fact that the US assisted Saddam Hussein at the same time that he was using the same WMD (poison gas) that the US now wants to throw him out of power for. At that time, Saddam was using it against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and since the US had a bone to pick with Iran, that use of terror by Iraq was considered okay. The situation has not significantly changed since then. Our real enemies, in the "war against terror" (which should more realistically be prosecuted as the "war against anti-American terror"), is still the Islamic fundamentalists, and we shouldn't complain too loudly when Saddam represses them in the south part of Iraq. Our real enemy is not Iraq, but is Iran, and by keeping Iraq down we are unnecessarily improving the situation of Iran and providing breeding grounds for terrorists in the regions of Iraq that Saddam's forces are kept out of. Re: "Do you suppose that each the US and the USSR held each other at bay with mutual weapon systems?" If by "mutual weapon systems" you mean "mutually assured destruction", then I'd say that it's not that simple. Neither side had sufficient conventional forces to defeat the other. So why start even a conventional war that would very likely end up as a bloody stalemate, perhaps leaving China to pick up the pieces. -- Carl

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