To: skinowski who wrote (1530 ) 9/22/2002 12:29:09 PM From: Yaacov Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8683 Skinwoski, Al Qaeda and Saddam are the same thing; Al Qaeda and the Arab masses are the same thing; Al Qaeda and every WOG that walks the streets of Cairo, Baghdad, Tunis, Damascus, and Riad are the same thing. Off course Saddam shelters Al Qaeda, through proxy, albeit the pro-Iraqi Kurdish faction, also assisted by the Khatami government in Tehran. Majority of the public in the US is ignorant of the real sentiment of Arabs toward the US in general and the West in particular. What Arab leaders say is one thing, but there masses think is another. We have no friends among Arabs. I know this because I have spent a life time working in petroleum industry, long before most people on this thread were born. I know these f---ers and how they logic!! To them we are the enemy, our wives, as Koran says are the wife and enemy and are open to rape. Our property is the property of the enemy and there to be taken and our lives is forfeited. When the Egypt Air plane nose dived off the coast of the New England, US public were made believe that it was an accident!!!!!! Three is an Al Qaeda in Arab that walks the street of Buffalo, no matter Libanses, Egyptian, or Saudi, and time will come, as mucj as I regret to say, that US will declare Marshal Law and Arabs living in the US will go the way Japanese Americans went in 1941, behind the barb wire. Nobody wants this but Arabs will bring it upon themselves. Now, Saddam, is the only Arab leader that stands alone and symbolizes that sentiment and that is the reason, no matter what the under-lying interest are for the invasion of Iraq, we need to get to rid of him. We also need to make an example for these WOGs to see. They are not as stupid as they look, they know and respect the heavy hand and they respect the force. They still speak with respect of "Osmanli" or the Ottoman Turks. Turks treated them worse than slaves, made them pay taxes, used their sons for canon fodder and ruled them with no respect, the worse colonial power you can get, and today every WOG from Syria to Tunisia talks of them with respect. I suggest you read the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawerence if you have not read it yet. Then we will talk! Yaacov