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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (14507)	3/1/2003 10:05:12 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

<<There is no indication that he has promoted terrorism.>> There is evidence ( pretty much fact ) that he has sent money to palestinian families that have strapped on explosives and taken their own lives to blow up jews. I'm not sure I can cite any other examples myself but some other may be able to. I'm not 100% sure about this next thing but I don't think Hitler had directly threatened us either. Not being a history brain I'm not 100% sure about that but lets just say he hadn't. Was it wise of us to get involved in that? I'm not sure the line has to be a direct threat for me. If my instincts tell me that a person would acquire technology to use against other populations or the US then I'd be likely to want to strike before that person could put themselves in a position to change the future of the globe

To: TigerPaw who wrote (14507)	3/2/2003 9:19:53 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Iraq terrorism links Tigerpaw: If terrorism is a policy of a country, then war is justified. Right now the indication is to hit Saddam because he is weak enough and Muslim enough to warrent it. There is no indication that he has promoted terrorism. 1) Message 18633320 Two Americans were killed by terrorists tied to Iraq in October of last year. 1) Lawrence Foley, USAID official in Amman, killed by amamber of Zarqawi's group. cnn.com 2) An American soldier was killed by an csmonitor.com The clearest evidence is the case of the Iraqi diplomat Hisham Z Hussein, who also went under the alias of Hisham Al Hidith and Abu Geith, according to Philippines intelligence officials. He was expelled from Manila on Feb. 13, after he was linked by Filipino police to two bombings, including one that killed a US soldier and two Filipinos. .... This time, the Iraq Embassy's second secretary Husham Z Hussein was expelled from the Philippines after it was discovered that he was in phone contact with members of the Abu Sayyaf Group, which has historic ties to Al Qaeda. The group is accused of planting a bomb in Zamboanga City that killed a US soldier, two Filipinos and injured 23 others last October. 2) Iraq has been a long time supporter of Hezbollah which has killed 311 of us so far: Hezbollah, for example, claimed responsibility for the April 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut (which killed 63 persons), the October 1983 suicide bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon (241 Americans died) and the 1984 bombing of the annex to the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon (killing 14 Americans). In 1985, Hezbollah staged the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, during the course of which U.S. Navy SEAL Robert Stethem was tortured and killed. The CIA's Beirut station chief, William Buckley, was kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah, as was William Higgins, an American serving with U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. washtimes.com 3) Iraq provided a haven for arch-terrorist Abu Nidal until he "committed suicide" last year by shooting himself in the head several times. 4) As Augustus Gloop has already posted, Saddam pays a bounty to families of Palestinian suicide bombers some of whom have killed Americans. At least one such bombing may have been targeted at Americans - the bombing of the Hebrew University cafeteria - the bomb went off near a table habitually used by Americans attending and visiting the school.