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To: Elsewhere who wrote (31016)	5/28/2002 10:04:16 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

Yes a fascist, but Franco didn't threat his neighbors. He didn't even invade Gibraltar, and, as a funny dictator, he had Spain abandon their iron ore rich Rio de Oro in 76, shortly before he entered coma; thus letting Hassan II, Morrocan king and "direct descendant of Allah, (mother unknown though)"peacefully" invade it; while no one marched for the Saharaouis few hundred thousand natives that should take some lessons from Mister Erekat, among others. While the Spanish Sahara, aka Rio de Oro, is twenty times bigger than Israel and West Bank together, who ever heard the expression a "Moroccan Settler"? Now when the Saharaouis started to get organized and fight back, in the late seventies and after, the Moroccan armies killed them at will, surprisingly, the streets of Paris remained empty of the usual shouting crowds, and even my friends... I do not want to betray my country (I was a soldier then: a three weeks monday mornings only long career, started handcuffed, finished with 115 Francs pay!) but I must tell you that later, I had first hand reports of some French army pilots, flying French military jets and dropping a few French bombs on those poor Saharouis Blue men. Well it was but a humanitarian hand to the Morrocan airforce: you may remember, 1972, those fierce Arab (sorry )pilots flying in four excellent US jets, (yes, trained in the US, like Moussaoui) they couldn't even manage to blow up the royal 727 with their King inside. But they escorted that Boeing for 400 Km! Yes, they finished in a firing squad, but Boeing made a fortune in free advertisement. Well, those were bad years for everybody : we were even selling nuclear plants to mister Saddam then... a nuke now pay never kind of contract. The chief salesman was a certain Mister Chirac. I wonder what became of him...? But don't smile Jochen: he is probably partying with his friend, Herr Kohl, on the tons of money their countries made upgrading some scuds in the desert, providing chemical assistance and moral support to Soddoma, I mean Babylone, excuse me, Bagdad. So should we laugh? Should we cry? Should we pray ? Should we hope? Should we pay? Should we fight ? All six together, probably.