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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (464381)	9/25/2003 5:18:30 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

My dearest Laz - Iraqis are happy they are rid of Saddam and 2/3 of them feel it is worth the price THEY are paying. As in, inconvenience of checkpoints, Americans raiding their homes once in a while, etc. The question was never that. The question was whether invading Iraq is worth the price the US is paying (and will, in all likelihood, pay in new ways). That is the question you should be asking yourself - are you now safer, or did the invasion of Iraq make terrorists angrier & more able to recruit to their ranks? Is the fact that the US is now isolated make it easier or harder to fight against terrorism on a global scale? Was there no other use within America for the hundreds of billions of tax money to be spent on Iraqis? Was there no way to further your goals other than killing 6,000 civilian Iraqis (note that they weren't polled! :-)

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (464381)	9/25/2003 11:16:45 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

obviously the Iraqi's are delighted Saddam is gone and I'm sure most Iraqi people are torn between feeling 'safe' with the American presense/protection while it gives them the opportunity to set up their own government and the radical elements messages that the US will stay, will rob them of their oil, will make them a vassal/puppet country you only have to look to Japan, West Germany to see what American occupation has resulted in - strong democratic countries taking their place in the world - countries who stand up and put their own interests first, as they should - if we don't like their stance, we too then have every right to object, voice our differing opinion and boycott products the deal is France didn't object as much to following UN sanctions as their fear of losing the money they made by being financially in bed with Iraq as to visiting France, I know of only one American friend who said they would go back to France, an art lover - all others have said the French are rude, don't like Americans and make it very clear they don't - why would you go back? though the French did help us in our American revolution, they did it more to vex and weaken Britain [their enemy] than to promote revolution - I do think Lafayette sincerely was a friend to the Americas [he was later denounced as a traitor by France and fled the country, nothing to do with the American revolution but their revolution] - btw, as a side note, our revolution worked the first time, theirs didn't America has a history of loving peoples of the world - they in fact immigrated to this country in millions, built this nation and are living proof of how we view man, no matter what his race or religion