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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5043)	10/14/2001 8:36:44 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

I don't disagree with what you put forward at all; I've seen references to Sunni heritage as part of the make up of the Iraw regime - could probably find some links. However it seems that Hussein is just a pragmatist that will exploit what works. He really is a get down and do it kind of man, after all. Sanctions - no problem. No nukes? Lets build them. etc. Perhaps he and OBL join forces. A fun pair they'd make. Probably the thing to do is wall off the N. American continent from the rest, do no intervention at all, and see how Ilmarinen likes it in 5-20 years. Maybe NA, USSR, China all agree to do so and divy up what remains after? Just a thought. Time to head for the gym pump up LOL

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5043)	10/14/2001 8:43:02 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 281500

Important words, although Glaspie said "a domestic arab-to-arab issue" (the exact words can be easily be found) In invading Kuwait, Saddam was acting out an old threat. His Baathist rhetoric historically has called for the elimination of existing Arab borders, which were drawn by British and French colonial powers. A specifically Iraqi claim long has been that Kuwait, which once was ruled together with southern Iraq under the Ottoman Turks, should have reverted to Iraq when the British left in . One of Saddam's greatest arguments against the man he helped topple from power in Iraq in 1963, Abdul Karim Kassem, was that Kassem had not taken Kuwait by force when the British left." Where did that "old threat" come from, any other suggested old words?? Ilmarinen Wasn't this sorted out in US media at that time, congressional hearings and all??