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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (20687)	12/17/2002 11:12:32 PM
From: Investor Clouseau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

One does not require an inside source to see what Syria wants to accomplish by selling upgrades Iraq for Saddam's air defense system. 1. If the upgrades allow Saddam to shoot down a coalition aircraft, Saddam will be destroyed, thereby increasing President Al-Assad's influence in the region. 2. If Saddam is not removed, Syria will have proved loyalty to Saddam, thus increasing Syrian security. I think President Al-Assad's plan is a thing of beauty, truly. I wish Saddam was capable of being consistently this intelligent, instead of being 95% criminal and 5% genius. Alas, if things continue as they are, President Saddam Hussein is a title we may never be able to say in the civilized world. I predict that Israel may have to buy the Golan Heights, that is if President Al-Assad is even willing to part with it at any price. IC

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (20687)	12/18/2002 12:46:54 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

The Holy Land is the Holy Land. IMO, it is most important that Holy sites be protected by whomever is most capable. Any land anywhere is HOLY if its inhabitants believe it to be so! (BTW, it is also true that "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.") By the way, someone once said that, if people want to have creature comforts in this life they will, more often than not, have to work very hard and even do evil things now and then. But, if they want to have all comforts and bliss in the hereafter, they don't have to do anything at all now but to believe and believe and believe!!!