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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (146885)	9/4/2002 6:07:02 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

"There is a vast difference" There is no difference.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (146885)	9/4/2002 6:27:16 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

"If Saddam Hussein was running Argentina, building nukes, gassing his own people and invading Chile we'd be just as interested." 1. We supported Saddam with military assistance while he was using chemical weapons against Iranians -- we were on Saddam's side when he invaded Iran and when he used chemical weapons. Invading Iran was fine with us -- we did not like the Iranians. If he wanted to gas them, fine. It was an unprovoked invasion by Iraq -- but we liked the whole idea and we gave him our support -- even when he used banned weapons. 2. Lots of countries have nukes. Pakistan has nukes and it is a military dictatorship teeming with terrorists and moving steadily towards provoking a war with India that could well be fought with nuclear weapons. But today they are our "friends". They were not our "friends" a few years ago - but we did not need them so badly a few years ago. We said very little when Pakistan supported terrorist attacks on the Indian Parliament -- deadly terrorist attacks aiimed at the leaders of India. 3. When we no longer needed the kurds after the gulf war, we encouraged them to revolt against Saddam and then stood by and did nothing when Saddam moved in and slaughtered them. To this day, it makes the Kurds reluctant to believe anything we say. They would die laughing if they heard you say that the US is doing this (invading Iraq) "for them". 4. The "northern alliance" includes lots of people that you would not invite home to dinner -- warlords and drugloards -- now they are our "friends". If you invite them to dinner, they can supply the heroin. They hated the Taliban -- the Taliban burned their poppy fields and took away their weapons. We gave them new weapons and bombed the ever-loving shit out of the Taliban for them. Now they can go back to a quiet life of "farming".