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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (15087)	3/20/2003 4:42:59 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Excellent eloquence... and summarises two of the key reasons that I think this war is wrong, unwise and unnecessary. Then early last year the unthinkable became thought, an all-out American war on the quiescent Saddam lest he “might” form an alliance with the Scarlet Pimpernel bin Laden. By an act of psychological transference, fear of bin Laden became fear of Iraq. ... Britain and America have now allowed bin Laden to goad them to a conflict that has divided the West more fiercely than the Soviet Union ever did during the Cold War. ... Nor is that all. Nothing can be giving bin Laden greater pleasure than the spectacle of the West going to war to topple his hated foe, the “atheist Satan”, Saddam Hussein. Even in his wildest dreams, he cannot have imagined what has now come to pass, Saddam about to go and Islam radicalised against the West. So now, thanks to the maddened urgings of mindless xenophobes infatuated with militaristic toys and adolescent power-projection, we are embroiled in this irrelevant conflict which will do nothing to address - and much to worsen - the real problems of the ME or the Muslim world.