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

To: PartyTime who wrote (14344)	3/1/2003 2:14:27 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Are you aware that British owned Reuters is rabidly anti-Israel and and anti-US. They refuse to use the word "terrorist" when referring to Palestinians who blow up Israelis. Instead they use "militants" "activists" etc. What is Reuters track record when it comes to purveying its so-called "news." ?

To: PartyTime who wrote (14344)	3/1/2003 2:19:08 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 25898

Didn't we hear this before, twelve years ago? They couldn't surrender fast enough. MORE crap from Reuters: Iraq's elite troops pledge to fight to death Reuters \| 3/01/03 BAGHDAD, March 1 (Reuters) - Iraq's elite troops told Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Saturday they would fight to the death to defend Iraq and its leader in the case of a U.S.-led invasion. The Republican Guards, Saddam's best-equipped special forces, made their allegiance during a meeting with Saddam, who has been dedicating his time to discussing strategy with officers ahead of a likely war. "They confirmed to the president that they have completed their preparations and conducted exercises, taking into consideration all the possibilities," the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted Iraq's special guards units as saying. "They pledged to the president that they will be the swords that will fight the aggressors and that they are ready to sacrifice to the level of martyrdom to defend their leader, their country and their sanctities," INA added. The Republican Guards, led by Saddam's son Qusay, are the main fighting force behind Saddam's rule. The United States and Britain have massed thousands of troops in the Gulf for a possible invasion to oust Saddam who they accuse of having weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi military currently has about 375,000 troops, including six regular Republican Guard divisions. Both the regular and Special Republican Guard units are the best equipped and trained. U.S. officials said this week that troops and equipment from Iraqi Republican Guard divisions have begun moving south towards Baghdad from their base in northern Iraq, apparently to beef up defences of Saddam's hometown of Tikrit and Baghdad.

To: PartyTime who wrote (14344)	3/1/2003 2:20:43 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 25898

If the Shia take over in Iraq, you can expect money to support terrorism to come in from Saudi Arabia. There are many unintended consequences which would flow from our invasion of Iraq.

To: PartyTime who wrote (14344)	3/1/2003 7:08:21 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

At least the Saudi said Baghdad needed to cooperate with U.N. arms inspectors and prove it did not have weapons of mass destruction in order to avert a U.S.-led attack. "Iraq should do what they ask them to do and quickly. If they have weapons of mass destruction, show them. If they don't have weapons of mass destruction, account for them," he said. Don't know why American antiwar protestors can't say this. Let me ask you, do you agree with the sentences above which I copied from your article?