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To: re3 who wrote (27782)	2/8/2003 8:47:28 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36161

I am not proposing we attack Saudi Arabia. I am proposing that attacking Hussein on the premise that he is an Islamic fundamentalist or even supports them is a blatant misguided lie. North Korea and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons and North Korea might use them. Iraq has no nuclear capability and inspectors have kept him tied down for years and have the potential at little cost to keep him tied down indefinately. North Korea is our biggest threat IMO, followed by Pakistan. What does Bush do: Bush calls an unstable leader of a nation with nuclear weapons a "pygmy". That is not only racist but totally moronic. There is no excuse for this. Of course North Korea ups the ante by threatening a first strike against the USA. Bush has proven himself to be a total moron. We are about to bog ourselves down attacking an addmittedly evil man, but one that has no direct ties to Al Qaeda, one who is not an Islamic Fundamentalist, and one the fundamentalists would just as soon get rid of as not, when our real threats are North Korea and Al Qaeda. Who knows how long this war will last, how many lives it will cost, how many innocent civilians as well as US soldiers will die and how long we will have to stay in Iraq afterwards? The ironic part of this mess is that although the Islamic Fundamentalists wanted to do away with Hussein, they will use an attack on Iraq as justification for violent attacks against the US. Part of what the war between Iraq and Iran was over, had to do with Hussein not seeing eye to eye with shiite fundamentalists, and we stupidly supported Hussein, suppying him both with weapons and nerve gas so he could fight the fundamentalists in Iran! Now Bush is attacking a nation that had nothing to do with 911, nothing to do with Al Qaeda or Islamic radicals, all the while we have far bigger threats elsewhere, an economy that can not support the costs of war, and no world support for the action. The most likely consequence of this action is to stir up more hate of the US on a worldwide basis. Personally I bet Al Qaeda is laughing their asses off at the stupidity of Bush. M

To: re3 who wrote (27782)	2/8/2003 9:03:21 PM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 36161

Overtures to Iran washingtonpost.com The overture to Iran, a member of what President Bush called an "axis of evil," demonstrates the extent of the administration's efforts to line up support in the Persian Gulf for an increasingly likely war against Iraq. We supplied Hussein weapons and nerve gas to help him fight Iran fundamentalists. Now we are asking Iranian fundamentalists help to take out Hussein! I guess you can never have too many enemies. Calling the North Korean leader a "pygmy" helps as well. Is this is laughable or pathetic? What next? M