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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 12:57:53 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Iran's supreme leader relieved at Saddam's arrest; says world will be better without Bush, Sharon Tuesday December 16, 2003 By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Denouncing Saddam Hussein as a ``bloodthirsty wolf,'' Iran's supreme leader expressed relief at his capture but said the world would also be better off without President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recalled that the United States ignored Tehran's early warnings about Saddam and supported Iraq's war against Iran in the 1980s that killed more than a million people on both sides. ``The same Americans who are against Saddam now, including the current secretary of defense (Donald Rumsfeld), shook hands with him in Baghdad and supported him to put Iran under pressure,'' Khamenei told several thousand Iranians gathered in Qazvin, about 100 miles west of Tehran. The speech aired live on state-run television. Khamenei said he was relieved at the capture of ``a bloodthirsty wolf in the shape of a human being.'' But if there were any illusions that the removal of Iran's longtime foe would win Washington any points with the country's hard-line clerics, Khamenei quickly dispelled them, pointing to Bush's remarks the day before. ``I heard the U.S. president has said the world is better without Saddam. I want to tell him that the world will be even better without Bush and Sharon,'' Khamenei said. His speech prompted chants of ``Death to America'' and ``Death to Israel.'' Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters in the Islamic republic, repeated his warning to the United States that God would destroy it as a superpower. ``Those who imagine that their power is eternal should look at the fate of Saddam ... and the former Soviet Union,'' Khamenei said. He added that Bush and Israeli leaders ``will not have a better fate than that of Saddam.'' Bush has grouped Iran alongside Saddam's Iraq in the ``axis of evil'' a trio filled out by North Korea. On Monday, Iran urged that Saddam be tried before an international court, saying the court must hear which nations sold him weapons during the 1980-88 war. Several countries sold weapons to Iraq, including the former Soviet Union, France and Egypt. The United States is known to have provided intelligence and civilian helicopters, and Iranians believe that Washington also supplied weapons. (Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 1:05:31 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt	Respond to of 769670

<<Doing NOTHING only led to 911. We mollycoddled the terrorists far too long and so did the UN. The UN actually aided the terrorists by NOT taking action. It became obvious after 12 years that the UN was NOT going to take any action against the terrorists! Why pass so many resolutions if you’re NOT going to enforce them?>> The UN had an implicit reason for tolerating Saddam as they were tapping the Iraqi exported oil for billions of dollars that ended up in the UN's coffers. I do not believe Goofy Annan has returned that Iraqi money to Iraq, which could be used for re-construction. The US should demand an immediate accounting of these funds, and demand its return to the Iraqi interim government. Ken

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 1:12:11 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

MKTBUZZ: Stop it. That's just too damn much straightforward thinking and logic. I think I need to sign off each post with "efff the UN."

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 1:36:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "Why pass so many [UN] resolutions if you’re NOT going to enforce them?" >>> That's a very good question. I'm not sure what the answer is... but I expect that the UN is routinely manipulated for political gain by it's member nations --- as much as is ever possible. (Perhaps this is not so surprising....) >>> Q - which TWO nations have the largest number of unenforced UN resolutions applying to them? >>> A - Morocco and Israel.

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 2:33:12 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

SO you only support your side, while those on the right have told my to buy a gun and use it on myself????? that's sick and uncalled for....so I'm sure you'll give him a medal To:Chris Considine who wrote (511005) From: Gut Trader Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003 2:08 PM View Replies (1) \| Respond to of 511013 US Security comes first, second and third...if ya can't live with it go to Walmart buy(credit card okay) a pistol and place it firmly in your mouth (autoerotic a real plus) and pull the trigger Have a nice day

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (510981)	12/16/2003 5:54:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

It seems you became outraged at 9/11, as we all did. I fully supported Bush in going to Afghanistan and getting Osama. When he annonouced he wanted to go to Iraq and get Saddam, I couldn't support it. Saddam didn't threaten us - even his neighbors weren't worried about him. He was an evil dictator arab, and arabs had attacked us, but despite Bush linking Saddam and 9/11 in every sentence - as he said, they had NO EVIDENCE Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. I don't believe in attacking a country just because we have the hammer of the worlds finest military designed to hit the nail of another country. We're NOT any safer, we're less safe.