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To: loantech who wrote (17889)	4/8/2003 3:58:16 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81187

Tom >How can you be sure this is not a victim of Sadaam? My understanding of events tells me that when bombs are falling the injury has to be directly and causally related to that, especially when there are witnesses. Of course, if you choose to believe that Saddam or his agents went to the house of the little boy, killed his parents, cut off his arms and then set him alight, that is your prerogative. >And if it is not and if Bush had not gone in, how many more Kurd's, dissidents, women, Shiites would Sadaam have to kill or torture or rape until you would want to see him unseated? Yes, I've heard that story but it's not my business to change the world according to my whims and fantasies, as Mr Bush and his advisers feel. If you consider that the terrible carnage being witnessed is justified by your understanding of Iraq, and that this is the price necessary to remove Saddam, then so be it . As for myself, I have never been there and I do not believe that the end (Western democracy, regime change or whatever) is justified by means such as this. >Perhaps we should exile Sadaam to South Africa to become your nations new leader? For what it's worth, when Saddam was the blue-eyed boy of the West SA sold him quite a lot of ordinance, even some which he is using today. As far as being leader of SA is concerned, I don't think that's possible although many people here do envisage that, one day, SA could become Islamic as many countries to the north of here have. In fact, Sharia law would possibly be a welcome change to what we have at the moment --- "African anarchy" and African nationalism.