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

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (20689)	12/18/2002 10:45:43 PM
From: Investor Clouseau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27786

Sodom is cunning to a point. However, he is a textbook example of the penultimate "dumb Arab" Darren, sorry I was not more clear in my post. It appears that a very big hunting season is going to open before I get my personal license, so to speak. Because I take joy in hunting, I’ve been depressed and distracted lately, and not as clear as I could be. IMO, Saddam is not stupid, but he is evil and does do some outrageously stupid things in the pursuit of his criminal empire. By using Hitler as one of his models, Saddam clearly does understand modern European history, and he knows why he must be destroyed. This is why he clings to his weapons so tenaciously, failure to do so would require that he give up his dreams of empire, just as Hitler would not have had an empire without his weapons. When I said that, until “Krystal Nacht” many people thought Hitler was a good leader, this is a fact based on the opinion of the time. Only Winston Churchill had the persistence, and confidence of vision to continually shout against Hitler’s evil behavior. Saddam has had his “Krystal Nacht”, and his “Czechoslovakia” already. However, after “Krystal Nacht”, it proved to most that Hitler used a scapegoat to keep his power, and that he really did believe his own lies. Because of this, he was ultimately doomed to failure, because blaming the innocent will always divert a person from the path of good and righteous behavior. The parallels between Hitler’s methods, and some of Saddam’s methods are truly striking (although Saddam also uses Stalin). Saddam is using scapegoats for his problems just as Hitler did. Saddam is pointing his finger at everyone, including Arabs, and blaming the innocent for the sanctions that stem from his loss in the Gulf War. Saddam also considers the U.N. sanctions as his equivalent of Hitler’s problem with the Versailles Treaty, which mandated crippling war reparations after World War 1. However, Hitler inherited the Versailles Treaty, and the Treaty allowed for no alternative to the payments which Germany was required to make because they lost the war. Saddam created his own problem, and his task was a very simple one, he didn’t even have to give up any weapons that are used to defend his country, only the offensive weapons of mass destruction in order to remove the sanctions. Saddam does consider his invasion of Kuwait as his “Rhineland” or “Czechoslovakia”, and failure to destroy him now that he has failed to give up his weapons of aggression, will lead to a wider conflagration eventually. Just as the failure to stop Hitler’s aggressive capability lead to an entire world at war, with 20 to 50 million people killed. For those that say Hitler was not a doomed and unrighteous person, I ask these questions. The military of Nazi Germany was the most technologically advanced, the most disciplined, and the most powerful of the time, why did they fail in their ultimate goal? Why did even the God-less communists defeat them, unless Hitler was truly unrighteous? My answers for myself are; Hitler failed because he was unjust and unrighteous. He failed to destroy the Jews for the same reason that the Pharaohs , the Romans, and combined Arab armies also failed, Because it is against the will of God, IMO IC

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (20689)	12/19/2002 7:50:13 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27786

Huge quagmire awaits US in Iraq, says Iran It will get bogged down if it stations troops there, it predicts TEHERAN - Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani has warned that the United States would find itself totally bogged down if it invaded Iraq and tried to maintain a military presence in the country. 'If Americans dare to keep a military presence in Iraq, they will be stuck in a huge quagmire,' he was quoted as 'Americans do not have the experience to confront Iraqi's war engineering methods. 'Even in Afghanistan, US casualties rose when they fought on the ground.' Mr Rafsanjani said American President George W. Bush was preparing for war despite Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's apparent surrender to the latest United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq. 'Bush's insistence on war will alienate America further from the world. 'By fully accepting the UN Security Council resolution, Saddam has effectively surrendered. 'Yet, Bush continues to beat the drums of war,' he said, according to the television. The United States has threatened to oust Mr Saddam by force if Iraq does not rid itself of weapons of mass destruction. Iran has repeatedly expressed its opposition to any unilateral attack against Iraq but said it would back a UN-led action if arms inspectors now in the country prove that Iraq still has non-conventional weapons programmes. Iraq has submitted to the arms inspectors a 12,000-page declaration to prove its assertion that it no longer has banned weapons. But US administration officials have said the Iraqi document is inadequate, especially in explaining what happened to Mr Saddam's chemical and biological weapons. --AP