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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: PartyTime who wrote (20505)	3/13/2003 8:11:47 PM
From: Steeny	Read Replies (2) of 25898

PT, Do you honestly believe that Hussein would have stopped in Kuwait & not gone on to Saudi Arabia? The current war is debatable, but you give Hussein far too much benefit of the doubt. All of his actions at the time indicate a quest for domination of the region and a massive miscalculation of US response. Militant Islam & anti US ravings were long in existence before US troops entered Saudi. Saudi schools have been teaching extreme Islam & anti-Americanism as a way to keep their people in check. These guys are terrified of Democracy because they know their dictatorship will fall. This was true through the 70s & 80s. Saudi was funneling money to OBL from the days he was a Mujahadeen. He had been blackmailing the Saudis through the 90s & the US presence in Saudi was just the excuse that replaced US support of Israel. 9-11 was going to happen either way. Your second point argues that the creation of AQ makes Saudi Arabia vulnerable & therefore Bush needs Iraqi oil more than before. There is validity to this. I would say this is a reason to go to war. Should AQ get a hold of Saudi, it is in our interest to have a democracy in the region which could prevent their spread. Also, if we are really cynical, why didn't Bush1 just let have Hussein have Kuwait? He would have provided us with a stable supply of oil & at the time we liked him. I think you agree that oil is not our sole reason for going to war, albeit you think it is 90% of the reason & I think it is 50%. Afghanistan was not about oil, but self defense. Iraq also has a 50% self defense element IMO. The Arab lands must change. They show little signs of doing it on their own and they represent a clear and present danger to the US. Look, Bush is a moron who has handled this situation ineptly & he & Cheney's oil cronies are going to reap the spoils of this war. I can't stand defending them. We should have taken care of Palestine first. These facts alone do not make this war unjust.

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