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

To: Doug R who wrote (20860)	3/14/2003 4:20:17 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Oh. Well. You clowns have spent forever accusing the US of wanting ti take out a tyrant for economic reasons. Now it turns out your heroes DON'T want him taken out for economic reasons. But that's entirely different, I'm sure.

To: Doug R who wrote (20860)	3/14/2003 10:24:22 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 25898

Time to throw a footstomping, death-dealing tantrum cuz somebody else has contracts? It sure as hell is when these nations are putting their economic interests in supporting a murderous dictator ahead of their obligation to enforce UNSC BINDING resolutions for Saddam to disarm and FULLY cooperate with UN inspectors (which Hans Blix says he has NOT done yet). Frnace had the chance to be on the right side of this issue, instead of having Chirac hitch their political wagon to Saddam. They could have cut a deal with opposition groups and just worked to get rid of Saddam, but he was their 'goose" which laid their "golden egg".. And even more, he represented France's last chance to possess a political sphere of influence in the region.. But now that has all disappeared for the French and the region will fall to dominant US influence (not conquest... but cultural and economic influence) and France and Russia will be left out in the cold. Not by choice of the US, but by choice of those Iraqis who rise to power in Iraq and never forget the role France and Russia played in enabling Saddam's repression against them. Hawk