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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (111382)	10/28/2000 4:39:26 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Horsefeathers. The US helped make Saddam. Who is the US to choose which dictators will lead other countries? That is how we got here in the first place. What you are calling for, like it or not, is for the US to pick dictators, support them, promote them, finance them, kill their enemies for them, and then, when they no longer serve our economic interests, to move in and kill them. Horsefeathers. Take your death squads in South America, your dictators we call "friends" who ship us oil, the gangs who supply our diamonds, the same ones who kill their own people and use our "military advisors" and "development aid" to do it, and shove it. What makes what we want to fill our own pockets with cash morally superior? If we can support the killing so that our precious economic interests are served, then it is what it is -- the use of force to seize resources. Call it like it is -- don't cloak this in moral terms. Pure horsefeathers. How many die moving the diamonds out of Africa? How much of that money goes to buy weapons? How much of the money from the jewels we wear is used to kill women and children? Who died so that we can drive our SUV's -- I am tired of the moral smugness of American consumerism. With sincere apologies to all -- I can't stand this conversation.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (111382)	10/28/2000 11:10:55 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>> Do you see a decent way the US could help the Iraqi people be rid of him? I don't think there is any direct way. After all the destruction and killing that the US did in Iraq, anyone there who takes help from the US would be considered a traitor. Remeber, the US did not only bomb military targets. It destroyed water towers, hospitals, shelters, electric generators, etc.... The US blockade has strengthened Saddam's position in the country. Since only the government has access to oil money. The difficulties of daily life have made all segments of Iraqi society extremely dependent on the government for basic things. Anyway, the US has no credibility in Arab countries. It is seen as just a tool of zionism.