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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (9682)	2/18/2003 2:55:01 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

I agree, Observer. I'm still aghast over the fact Denmark wants to try the former Iraqi general Nizar al-Khazraji for war crimes on the gas issue; however, the US wants him to replace Saddam. news.bbc.co.uk Doesn't this tell you there's something wrong with the picture?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (9682)	2/18/2003 3:14:40 AM
From: Sojourner Smith	Respond to of 25898

Regarding OBL. We used him to distabilize Soviet occupied Afganistan and he used us to further his dream of a PanIsalamic state. We did not create him, he was on the path he chose. I, at the time during the Carter years, felt it was strange that we felt we should protect our spheres of influence in Central America while we condemned the Soviets for protecting their spheres of influence. The US cheered that that the Soviets were suffering like we did in Viet Nam. OBL stated later he was the cause of the fall of the Soviets and now the US was next. We went on to embarrass the Soviets by boycotting the Olympics, which again I felt was a mistake and it lost us 8 years in improving relations.