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To: tejek who wrote (161528)	2/18/2003 5:37:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Now, the bad news.......Turkey, our ally and coalition member....maybe...so long as we pay up with big unmarked bills under the table........ has not been all that nice to the Kurds either. It seems they killed around 30-40k Kurds in the 1980s, and then maybe another 40k Kurds since 1992 You've gotten all balled up about the Kurds. There are [at least] two major differences: a) What you don't seem to comprehend is that Saddam is a brutal dictator. Yes, people have wars and people get killed as a result. We can't do anything about that. But Saddam uses murder and torture to maintain his power. Just like a few other dictators. b) Saddam clearly poses a national security threat to the United States. As does does NK. None of the other dictatorships do. It seems clear that there is a two pronged test: a) Does the dictator routinely practice human rights violations? b) Does the dictatorship pose a national security threat to the United States or its allies? Item (b), taken alone, is a necessary and sufficient condition. But item (a) is aggravating, making the case even stronger. This isn't complicated.