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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (76895)	6/6/2006 11:59:48 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

tonto, AS was not supporting Saddam. Like most intelligent folks in the world we are questioning the tactics used to get rid of him. In the void of Saddam, what has taken his place is no better IMHO. It may in fact be worse, as now it appears that Iraq will go fundamentalist Islamic. Is that what you wanted? By the way, the biggest supporters of Saddam were Reagan and Rumsfeld. See the connection?

To: tonto who wrote (76895)	6/6/2006 5:07:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Saddam was an idiot, a blowhard and a murderous maniac. And yet, he did understand his own country better than the Bush adminstration did. He realized that to hold down the Shiites majority and Islamic extremists, it took an iron hand. Which means violent supression of dissidents. Because without it, you have civil war. In the 80's, Reaganites supported and armed Saddam against Islamic fundamentalist Iran. At the same time, they secretly armed Iran (which was illegal). And they looked the other way when Saddam gassed the Kurds and cracked down on Shiite dissisents, burying them in mass graves. One more thing, Saddam's fear of Islamic extremists made it almost impossible for him to ever ally himself with Al Qaida. When the rightwing used that excuse to invade, they were really fabricating BS. We have still not found any credible evidence linking Saddam to Al Qaida.