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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence
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To: Carolyn who wrote (22036)3/20/2003 10:30:46 PM
From: David in Ontario  Read Replies (1) of 27666
 
The anti-war protestors should be ashamed.

Before the current conflict I heard very little from these same people and the organizations that are protesting this just conflict against the UN failures and genocide in Rwanda, the Chinese annexation of Tibet and the ongoing "assimilation" of Tibetian culture and society, the genocide in the former Yugoslavia, the ongoing atrocities in Africa,... But I guess they're OK because I don't hear their protests.

I heard a complaint on NPR radio this evening from the Kurds in northern Iraq that the war was going too slowly and that they wanted the Iraqi regime and Saddam dispatched ASAP. The Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq are also keen for Saddam et al. to just disappear.

Yet protesters in the West are saying by their actions that the oppression against these people for over 20 years by Saddam is OK and how dare the allied coalition remove Saddam by force. He was after all working with that fool Blix and he was disarming. Why, because he and his regime said they were. We just need a little more time, as 12 years isn't long enough. And because they said this was the case, then we should believe them.

I take my hat off to the restraint and compassion the allied coalition is still displaying toward the Iraqi military - as again and again - they are requesting them to surrender, and if so no harm will come to them. If the Iraqi military falls apart, then that will be the best outcome.

When Iraq does become a democratic and prosperous state - then that won't sit well with the other Arab states - as they aren't democracies and dissent is kept under a tight lid.

David.
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