To: tejek who wrote (175650 ) 9/30/2003 6:32:36 PM From: Joe NYC Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ted,I disagree. There was a sizeable minority....around 30% who were against the war.....another 15% who were wavering. Furthermore, there was a majority who wanted the support of the UN. Only in the end, when Bush said that Saddam had uranium for a nuclear devise did that majority disappear. However, with the absense of WMD, those people now feel tricked. It takes real work to build consensus. Bush was not willing to do the work.....neither was Blair. Now, both are paying for that lack of effort. Europe would have acted if the weapons inspectors had found WMD and if Saddam refused to destroy those weapons. The rising anti semitism, and I really think its anti Israel and not anti Judaism, is because of Israel's heavy handiness with Palestine. I can't be the only one who recognizes that Israel is short of water and the West Bank has tons. And it can't be explained to someone like me. I just don't buy the argument. Saddam's threat to Israel was in the past tense; its true that Saddam gave money to suicide bombers families but so does most of the ME; and what's fueling the militant islamist is not Saddam but mostly the US and our interventions in the affairs of others.
