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To: Road Walker who wrote (221443)	3/2/2005 1:17:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

Saddam tribunal judge gunned down in Iraq, attacks kill 13 BAGHDAD : Gunmen assassinated a judge serving on the tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein, as suicide car bombers killed 10 people in attacks on an Iraqi army base and a checkpoint in Baghdad. cotinued............... channelnewsasia.com John, I know you may not think so but this actually is good news. The tribunal judge wasn't all that good, and I understand the 13 people killed were unemployed and not contributing to the well being of Iraqi society. Consequently, their deaths in the long run will benefit Iraqi society. Do you understand now? ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (221443)	3/18/2005 4:41:12 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

John, I keep posting them because so many folks keep posting about Bush's glorious Iraq policy. The negatives are there for all to see, nobody disputes them. The "positives" are pipedreams. Right now stability in the region is breaking down, with unknown consequences that could be dire for the region, and for the world economy. Looking at it from purely selfish point of view, the best thing for people in the west would be to just wall off the entire Mid East, and just connect it to the rest of the world with one gigantic pipeline. Unfortunately, it completely ignores the fact that there are millions of people living there, for whom this idea of "stability" may not be entirely appealing. Collapse of Soviet Union created a lot of instability, and some of it persists in parts of the former empire. I think that it is a given that the world is better off as a result of that period of instability. I think that the US definitely escalated the instability started by 9/11 by attacking Iraq (one of the reasons I was against it at the time). But it seems to be turning out that maybe that is exactly what the reagion needed. Joe