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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (2291)	3/24/2003 11:27:19 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

No, I don't believe any of that Iraqi propaganda. We have independent embedded reporters, fool! You're just another treacherous Saddam ass kisser, GFY.

To: Doug R who wrote (2291)	3/24/2003 11:32:47 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 21614

<<You should actually be indignant that you have been taken as a fool by the propaganda artists>> OOps....wait a minute. Its not propaganda yet! As of now we have found a chemical factory. Neither you nor I have enough information YET to say one way or the other whether its a weapons factory. So...as of now we have found a chemical factory

To: Doug R who wrote (2291)	3/24/2003 11:34:37 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 21614

JORDAN, King Abdullah calls the Bush war"potential Armageddon" From Jordan Mouin Rabbani Amman The awful Anglo-American invasion of Iraq means that Jordan is now literally situated between two wars: To the west, the increasingly bloody Israeli-Palestinian confrontation is now well into its third year. To the east, indications are that it will be at least as long before peace and stability take hold in Iraq. This war could not have come at a worse time for Jordan. Public opinion, much of which is of Palestinian origin and is constantly bombarded with images of Israel's bloody counterinsurgency in the occupied territories, reached the boiling point well before Bush discovered Iraq. The Jordanian economy, suffering from the combined effects of UN sanctions on Iraq, the Palestinian intifada, 9/11 and the global recession, is in the doldrums. And late last year in the southern Jordanian city of Ma'an, armed confrontations between residents and security forces claimed a number of lives. The dilemma for Jordan's young king, Abdullah II, is acute. Whereas his late father, King Hussein, refused to join the coalition that confronted Iraq in 1991, the current monarch has concluded that in the post-9/11 world one does not risk incurring Washington's wrath. But because he rules over a population that has come to detest the United States even more than Israel, cooperation has to be kept firmly out of the limelight. The result is that the extent of Jordan's involvement is the subject of few facys, many rumors, and an equal number of official denials. Earlier this week, for example, Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher went out of his way to strenuously deny reports that Israeli special forces were opering from Jordanian soil: "It has not happened, and could never happen. As the Jordanian government braces for popular demonstrations against the war, the security forces have taken control of the city's streets. Demonstrations have effectively been banned; several university students who refused to heed the call were beaten to a pulp. Nevertheless, Jordanians now have an added reaosn to voice their anger: while the missile attack on Baghdad that inaugurated the war failed to decapitate the Iraqi leadership, it did dismember a Jordanian taxi driver who happened to be in the area The residual support for Saddam Hussein among some Jordanians does not begin to explain the intensity of feeling against Washington and its war. As one enraged Jordanian said, "This is not a war against Iraq, but against the entire Arab world to destroy it, control its oil, and make the West Bank safe for Ariel Sharon's settlements." Others prefer to see this as "a war by the Christian fundamentalists in the America and the Jewish fundamentalists in Tel Aviv against Islam." "A few more days of shock and awe," noted an observer, "and Usama bin Ladin can uncork the proverbial champagne." "The main problem Al-Qaeda is going to face after this war," predicted another, "is the competition." With a colonial legacy that has yet to be fully resolved, the occupation of Iraq strikes a particularly sensitive chord in the Arab world. So too do Washington's ever more brazen double standards; as Baghdad was being saturated with high explosives, the Bush Administration allocated nine billion dollars in loan guarantees to Israel--which had requested only eight. Little wonder that noon prayers on Friday, 21 March, were followed by unrest not only in Amman and its Palestinian refugee camps, but also once again in Ma'an. Little wonder that King Abdallah II has described this war as "potential Armageddon." thenation.com