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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (1244)	7/24/2003 3:01:49 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<Could it be that a majority of people in Iraq hated Saddam and his rapist/murdering sons?>>> I try to answer one foolish question a week and yours is the best so far. For starters I haven't seen any evidence that Saddam's sons raped or murdered anyone. In America we hold trials when a person is accused of a crime rather than dispatching enforcers to kill everyone at a designated location. Our forefathers felt this was a good system. They believed a fair trial would insure guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt - if in deed a person was guilty of a crime-, and that a public record of ALL evidence, presented by both sides, would be kept to insure the process was just. The accused was guaranteed the right to face their accuser in public. The most cowardly act committed by Bush since 2000 is refusing Saddam Hussein's offer to face the Bush accusations in public. It was a heroic offer on the part of Hussein and the most yellow bellied, cowardly act on the part of a US President in the history of America when Bush turned tail and hid rather than accept the challenge. It was a default admission on the part of Bush that he is a lying, dishonorable, cowardly, no good SOB. Saddam is not a good person, but he's a better man than Bush by orders of magnitude. So to answer your question, it's "possible" the majority of Iraqis hated Saddam and his kids, although I haven't seen a census on the issue and I doubt you have either. Anything is possible without the facts. What makes your question foolish is it should read, "Do the people of Iraq hate Bush?". It doesn't take a majority to lose the war in Iraq any more than it took a majority to lose the war in Vietnam any more than it took a majority to win the American Revolution. A feral human is the most dangerous predator on the face of the planet, and the only animal that will intentionally stalk predators larger than himself. He will kill when he's not hungry or facing an immediate personal threat. He's fantastically difficult to kill, next to impossible to capture alive, and can't be enslaved under any circumstances. What Bush has accomplished in Iraq is to create a situation so terrible that portions of the population have turned feral. Being a coward himself, and a bigot, Bush believes these people are animals, and are as easy to hunt as animals, while having no concept whatsoever of the fantastically perfect killing machine he has created in a minority of the Iraqi population. There's always a certain percentage of sheep. They don't count. It's the tiny minority in a tribe that will turn feral when attacked that have caused the total failure of every attempted conquest short of genocide since the dawn of time. A military machine, trained to kill, can't match the efficiency of enemies who are fighting instinctively to defend their tribe. The sheep provide protective camouflage for the wolves while they go about their business of killing their enemies. The flip side of the coin is that people are also reasonably social animals. If you don't make sudden movements in front of their faces, they usually won't bite. If you can find something they have in abundance that you want, and can trade it for something they want, they're usually pretty easy to make friends with. A careful protocol of checks and balances to eliminate corruption and theft is about all it takes to maintain a near permanent condition of peace.