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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (92036)12/26/2004 4:37:38 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
For all the repressiveness of his managerial style this should not be overlooked:

"Under Saddam such fanatics were kept out since, for all his occasional nods towards Islam, he was essentially a secularist. (Michel Aflaq, founder of the Ba’ath party, was a Syrian Christian, and Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s deputy, is from Iraq’s small Christian minority.) But thanks to Donald Rumsfeld’s “army lite”, such groups have been able to enter Iraq through the porous Syrian border. Jihad, holy war, has come to Iraq.
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I feel sorry for the people who supported this war. There is bad, and then there is worse. What we had with Saddam was bad, but I fear we will see worse.
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