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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (299192)	9/22/2002 9:34:24 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Justice Minister Herta Daeuberl-Gmelin was reported to have compared President Bush to Hitler for threatening war to distract from domestic problems. She denied saying it. but, bush and schroeder have weak economies- and are using iraq to get voters focused on iraq, rather than the economy.

To: tejek who wrote (299192)	9/22/2002 9:59:09 PM
From: Dr. Doktor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why take out Saddam? Saddam Huessein ... ... has a proven track history of capricious brutality, on a scale that eclipses Slobo Milosovec by far (and you know what's being done to him right now). ... has established a control system in Iraq that is centralized in one man -- himself -- unlike any other nation in existence today .. where he, AND HE ALONE, has near-total control of extensive resources that can be leveraged to procure and produce the components and assembly of weapons of mass destruction. There is neither Congress, judiciary, nor press to act as a check and balance on his control. What control he is forced to delegate is maintained by a combination of corrupt reward and sadistic retribution directed at the small number of people he must depend upon. ... is located in an area of the world where the freedom or restriction of the flow of the primary resource -- oil -- spells the difference between global prosperity and global economic depression ... and, were he able to exercise any measure of control over that flow, would give him significant leverage to impose some of his objectives on the whole world. ... is located in the above area, with an absence of militarily-powerful next-door neighbors to keep him honest, and with more than enough area to hide WMDs from the view of more-remote neighbors with the power to preemptively disrupt any aggressive movement or weapons transfer. ... has a history of using deception and civilian shielding to hide his destructive capabilties from those who could interdict his actions. ... ascribes to, and seeks the admiration of those who ascribe to, a world view that has places a relatively low value on individual life in this world, while placing such a high value on life in the next world and adherence to its dogma that it makes heroes out of those who commit suicide for the faith, and enemies out of those who seek to coexist peacefully outside that faith. ... who in public statements, even after being defeated on the field of battle, has indicated no change in his attitude towards the value of indivdual lives and peaceful coexistence, but instead states his opposition to even peaceful, commercial activities between America and his neighbors. .... who knows that, in a direct confrontation using conventional military forces, he could neither count upon his resources nor his people to forestall his defeat. ... who also knows that he can further, and even achieve, many of his aims by an alternate path -- covertly developing WMDs for use by those whose committment to their common objectives is even more fanatical than his, but have no official tie to his government that could be used to hold him accountable for that use in the eyes of much of the world. Unlike China, Russia, or even North Korea or Iran, the combination of the above conditions makes an Iraq under the control of Sadaam Huessin a singular threat to freedom, commerce, and peace worldwide. Ironically, at present he is highly vulnerable to a military defeat by the United States if it chooses to do the world such a favor. However, the potential loss of life and liberty -- in both terrorist attacks he will have the opportunity to provision, and in the war that will ultimately defeat him -- increases, the longer we wait. I do not take this position lightly -- I have a son who is of draftable age, and a childhood friend of his who is already in the 82nd Airborne. But the cost of inaction could be far, far greater if we engage in the Pharasaical pursuit of the principle of "peace at any price, war never".