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To: tejek who wrote (2814)	2/20/2004 10:42:40 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

Americans now are only beginning to reflect what the world has thought about Bush for a long, long time. The man should have remained governor of TX. Some Americans and some of the world, and the percentage of neither is significantly rising at the moment. What damage was done by our minimal support of Saddam in 1980 rather then waiting until Iraq was under more threat by Iran. The damage is the considerable amount of hate in the Islamic world directed at us. So the fact that we may have sent him a tiny bit of aid in 1980 makes them hate us when they supported the idea of sending him much more aid a couple of years later? That doesn't make any sense. He's been a problem since the 1970s. The best behaved he's been is during the '90s and NOW you want to take him out. Go figure! He was particularly a problem in the 80s and early 90s. Later in the 90s he was a bit under control because of US power and pressure but that control couldn't last forever. With or without the Russians, we would have won the war with Germany. Probably but maybe at a cost of a longer war and perhaps another half million or more (possibly much more) American dead. And without the Eastern front the Nazis might have lasted long enough to get nukes. In any case "without the Russians" wasn't a choice. Once Germany attacked the USSR we where allies. Any fighting of the Nazis that we did then was helping Stalin. Stalin was going to dominate Eastern Europe unless either 1 - The Nazis won on the Eastern front which would mean we would face a longer bloodier war that might have included nukes in Europe or 2 - We had a third world war against the USSR right after the 2nd ended. The American deaths from either scenario likely would have been over 1000 times as high as what we are now facing in Iraq. Tim