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To: sea_urchin who wrote (19773)	12/14/2003 3:40:57 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81118

> The US is very much in need of Saddam himself (2) Or, if not him, then his secret police. antiwar.com >>>The idea is to hire some of the worst of the worst – members of Saddam's old secret police – to infiltrate the resistance and finger key players for the American murder squads. Thus, we climb in bed with the very people our boy president likes to moralize about – those dreaded evildoers. Only now they will be evildoers on our payroll instead of Saddam's. Only now, instead of bringing democratic values to Iraq, we will show the Iraqis we are just as good at murder as Saddam. If you are one of those superpatriots who like to wrap themselves in the American flag while you watch Fox News, don't be shocked. We did exactly the same kind of things during the Vietnam War. I used to have, now and then, a bloody Mary or several with a CIA man who had run the infamous Phoenix Program in Vietnam. There, the South Vietnamese would finger members of the Viet Cong, and we would snuff them. Of course, my friend said in his cynical way, if the quota for the month was 50, the South Vietnamese fingered 50; if it was 500, they found 500. How many of the thousands we murdered were actually Viet Cong and how many were innocent Vietnamese, nobody knows, except perhaps the South Vietnamese who were involved. The number of people we murdered ranges from 21,000 (an official figure) to 47,000. The fatal flaw in our foreign policy is that we always talk one way and act another way. Cold-blooded murder is cold-blooded murder, whether the hit man works for the mob or the U.S. government. Assassination violates every principle we claim to stand for. The truth is that war and occupation are a dirty business, and they contaminate everything and everybody involved. There are no good wars, and there are no good guys on either side. All you have are degrees of evil. We committed enough crimes against humanity in World War II that if we had lost, it would have been our politicians and generals in the dock for war crimes. If we can't refrain from acting like Murder Inc. and from sleeping with the evildoers, let's at least drop the self-righteous bit. Hypocrisy so ill becomes us.<<<