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To: brian1501 who wrote (177540)	11/4/2003 8:37:41 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574680

see your point but I never said we were doing a crusade. However, I must say that I can see the Muslims believing we are on a crusade...... You may not have said that outright, but you sure seemed to support it. Here's what you said: We just started a war pre-emptively against a Muslim nation; we have an Deputy Secretary of Defense running around claiming that the Muslims worship false idols and that the it was God's intervention that got Bush elected; we have a president who intentionally is trying to blur the division between church and state; and a leading Republican who traveled to Israel recently and told them that we will do whatever it takes to keep the Arabs at bay, and you think it would be hard to argue. Dang Brian, I was trying to give you the mindset of a Muslim and why they might consider our behavior crusade like. I know we are not on a crusade. I believe what my eyes tell me.........there are no WMDs. If you have evidence they exist, please provide it. As for Saddam, he didn't actively support squat. All he did was wait until the very end before admitting all the WMD had been destroyed. I'm starting to wonder if Hussein still had them myself, however I think the Syria possibility could have merit. Either way, Hussein was to comply, and he didn't. We allowed him to drag it on for 10 years. He had enough time. He had gotten rid of them long ago. It wasn't hard to figure out what he was doing. We had turned him into a clawless tiger who had pssed off all his neighbors. He was afraid they would turn on him if they knew he was devoid of WMDs. And he DID actively support "squat". There is no question he did not account for all of his WMD. He was definitely in violation of many resolutions (several authorizing force), but beyond that, he was promoting the view that he had WMD. They were sending us false informants, he had all of those chem suits and atropine etc. He wanted us to think he had the WMD, and he got what he deserved. That's not true.......I don't know if it will ever come out but Bush knew the WMDs were gone. That's why he pushed so hard to get us into war before the weapons inspectors found out the truth. If he was doing that to save face, then he's the dim bulb <g>.* Dang! Everyone's a dim bulb today. It must be hard for you putting up with us. <g> The ME, the US, and especially Iraq will be better off when we're done. Don't you want to know the country I was describing? Its Saudi Arabia. You understand that the Saudis and the Taliban practice the same form of Islam.......Whahhabism.......a very strict and punitive form. Humanitarian conditions in SA are in some ways only slightly better than that of Iraq and yet, we are allied with them. ted Subject Titles Only Full-Text Message Boards Terms of Use