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To: kech who wrote (191991)	1/7/2007 3:25:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

I wrote more. But you were too quick. Read a bit more. Mqurice

To: kech who wrote (191991)	1/7/2007 3:42:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Kech, Victor's justice doesn't like comparisons. You might see things you don't like. <Still your effort at moral relativism is questionable at best > My Lai versus Saddam's hanging crime = can you really, really, really not see which is worse? Perhaps if you imagine Osama coming through your town to deal with the problem of you and your family. Would you prefer to be marched out and shot, or would you like your women and children to be shot in a ditch? Can you really, really not see a difference in punishment? One got a pardon, one got a hanging. If my family had been shot in a ditch in My Lai, I would be more angry than if I was presumed to be party to an insurrection and shot as a likely supporter [as Saddam was charged with]. I probably would be a supporter, so they'd get the right bloke. You can be sure that when Americans shoot a few Iraqis who had the misfortune to show up in Haditha in a taxi, the hundreds of people that each one is closely associated with and the thousands of others peripherally identifying with them, other males will start to think they had better defend their territory. That's what chimps do. They aren't just towel-heads. They are people, even if they have dopey superstitious ideas [Islam]. That's no worse than King George II's apocalyptic Armageddon Christian superstitions. Keep in mind that the situation in which Saddam was living was a far different scene from the considered habeas corpus multiple court case legal realm of the politically stable developed world. It was and still is a do or die, all-or-nothing, our tribe or theirs, conflict for dominance. As you can see from the current carnage, it wasn't Saddam who set the rules. Osama's attack on the Twin Towers wasn't decided by Saddam. It's the way it works there. Saddam was just the best at using the rules of the region in getting and keeping power. That is, until April Glaspie led him astray into thinking that the USA wouldn't dabble in the area to his disadvantage. Ooops. It all went badly wrong from then on. Oil profits in the 1990s were great. And still are. Having such a LOT of oil off the market did NOT hurt export prices from other areas. Mqurice