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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5695)	7/24/2003 12:20:54 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) of 15991

Hawk, I was born and spent well over a quarter century of my life in the region under discussion. You may have mostly read about it but I lived and experienced it. The Saudi monarchy is very much against the Muslim clergy and their incitement. It does not take a US to push the Saudi royalty in a corner against their clerics/Wahabs. They have always had their dislike for them from day 1. The US should stop taking false credit. Let us not fall for such a propaganda. I for sure am not going to fall for it. Having lived in those areas, allow me to share my thoughts on what I perceive is going to happen. Yes indeed, the Iraqis and even the others in the Arab world will celebrate the news of Uday and Kusai's death (assuming that is true, who knows about US intelligence these days?) However remember that what we see as celebration in the Arab world today should not be viewed as victory for the US. With the common enemy (Uday and Kusai) out of the way, the Muslim fundamentalists (Shiite's in particular) will turn their attention towards the US and "US occupation" of Iraq. And then this will turn out to be another Vietnam. The US wanted to save South Vietnam from communism and it all ended up being communist anyway. Similarly in Iraq, the US wanted it to be saved from a facist dictator in Saddam, it will end up to be a facist dictator anyway, this time it maybe some Shiite cleric. Time alone will tell. My point, Bush should not have gotten us in this mess just for Iraqi oil. Instead he should have relentlessly pursued Osama and his men to wherever he fled, across the border to Pakistan or India or across the ocean to Indonesia or Phillipines. He failed to pursue and capture Osama and his men(remember his rhetoric that "...we are going to smoke them out from their foxholes.... And as face saver he turned the nation's attention away towards Iraq and towards a man "...who tried to assasinate my father...."

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