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To: tejek who wrote (185416)	3/23/2004 8:27:33 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Come on, Sharon is painted as a monster for no good reason, if he was a "butcher" enjoying seeing Arabs being slaughtered, he had a number of occasions to do it "completely legally" and he refused to do it. Take the Egyptian third Army which in 1973 he completely encircled and could have decimated it by simple artillery barrage, with no place to go. As soon as it became clear they are no longer a fighting force, he let them surrender with honor. Even the Egyptians admit that. Sharon has problems, one of them is being impulsive and acting without full "deliberation" of all the possible outcomes (but I have seen very few world leaders that do, the French leadership just prior to the Iraqi conflagration precipitated the war by stating categorically "there is no security council resolution we will not veto", or some thing to that effect, locking the door on possible political solution Powell was working on, and facilitating the neocons' desire in the administration to "take out" Saddam, whatever the excuse). One thing he is not, he is not blood thirsty and nor has he ever ordered killing of innocent civilians, or for that matter the wasteful killing of Egyptian soldiers that are no longer posing a military threat. Zeev