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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (16669)	6/14/2001 3:37:48 AM
From: Chris land	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Most of the World sees that Saddam is mad. Unfortunately most of the world also sees our part in this. You are spreading seeds of discord by suggesting that the US took a wrong approach in enforcing all those sanctions. Ok, so the whole world is saddened to see Saddam bully people around but do they do anything about it? How come the Arab nations don't stop him? I'll tell you why, because they fear him. Yeah, it's easy to mock the US because we arent' a bunch of thugs looking for revenge. I remember that dude Rashdie writing satire about the Muslim religion and there were death threats sent out against him, hence he went into hiding like a sacred rabbit. Why don't they send death threats out against that madman Saddam who MURDERS his own countrymen? I'll tell you why.....hypocricy, fear and ignorance. The US took the initiative as the world superpower to stop his aggression and I sure hope we don't back down until the job is complete. Chris

To: one_less who wrote (16669)	6/14/2001 11:11:00 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Perhaps I misunderstood your perspective. I thought you were defending the dam-man. I would remind you that he was gassing the Kurds before the sanctions, so giving him access to more money may in fact be worse for the same people we are talking about. The one complaint I would agree with is that the US left the dam-man in power when they had him beat. This was done for several purely political reasons, as a balance to Iran, and to extract themselves from the perception of having put a puppet regime in place. I think they under estimated him badly. So in that sense I would agree that the US has a high degree of responsibility