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You need to read the whole article I think :-). c-da At 10:45 AM -0700 8/28/02, jayanta payeng wrote: >C'da > > > >I beg to differ with you . One of mankind's compulsive / impulsive >reaction , when a solution to a problem is not-in-sight / and maybe >not-in-sight , then the gut reaction is to find a Scapegoat . So if it is >not OBL , it should be the Saudis or Saddam or Gaddafi. > > > >I may be wrong but that's what I infer from DC's statement > > > >Regards > > > >Jayanta > > > >From: Chan Mahanta <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A Great Piece from NY Times > > > > >I'm With Dick! Let's Make War! >By MAUREEN DOWD > >WASHINGTON - I was dubious at first. But now I think Dick Cheney has it right. > >Making the case for going to war in the Middle East to veterans on Monday, >the vice president said that "our goal would be . . . a government that is >democratic and pluralistic, a nation where the human rights of every ethnic >and religious group are recognized and protected." > >O.K., I'm on board. Let's declare war on Saudi Arabia! Let's do "regime >change" in a kingdom that gives medieval a bad name. > >By overthrowing the Saudi monarchy, the Cheney-Rummy-Condi-Wolfy-Perle-W. >contingent could realize its dream of redrawing the Middle East map. > >Once everyone realizes that we're no longer being hypocrites, coddling a >corrupt, repressive dictatorship that sponsors terrorism even as we plot to >crush a corrupt, repressive dictatorship that sponsors terrorism, it will >transform our relationship with the Arab world. > >We won't need Charlotte Beers at the State Department, thinking up Madison >Avenue slogans to make the Arab avenue love us. ("Democracy! Mm-mm, good.") > >If America is going to have a policy of justified pre-emption, in Henry >Kissinger's clinical phrase, why not start by chasing out those sorry Saudi >royals? If we're willing to knock over Saddam for gassing the Kurds, we >should be willing to knock over the Saudis for letting the state-supported >religious police burn 15 girls to death last March in a Mecca school, >forcing them back inside a fiery building because they tried to flee >without their scarves. And shouldn't we pre-empt them before they teach >more boys to hate American infidels and before they can stunt the lives of >more women? > >The vice president declared on Monday, "This nation will not live at the >mercy of terrorists or terror regimes." I am absolutely with him. > >Why should we (and our S.U.V.'s) be at the mercy of this family that we arm >and protect and go to war for? The Saudis have never formally apologized to >America for the 15 Saudi citizens who came here and killed 3,000 Americans >as they went to work one sun-dappled September morning. They have never >even tried to rewrite their incendiary terrorist-breeding textbooks or stop >their newspapers from spewing anti-American, anti-Semitic lies, like their >stories accusing Jews of drinking children's blood. They brazenly held a >telethon, with King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah giving millions, to >raise money for families of Palestinian suicide bombers, or "martyrs." Last >week the Saudi embassy here put out a glossy brochure hailing their >"humanitarian work" at the telethon. > >It was embarrassing yesterday, given President Bush's swagger on Iraq, to >watch him fawn over the Saudis. At lunch at his ranch he entertained Prince >Bandar, the man who got private planes to spirit Osama bin Laden's >relatives out of the U.S. after the attacks. Mr. Bush also called Crown >Prince Abdullah yesterday to assure him of the "eternal friendship" between >their countries and to soothe hurt Saudi feelings over a lawsuit filed by >9/11 victims charging Saudi support of terrorism. > >Mr. Cheney argues that we must invade Iraq while we have a strategic window >for action, while Saddam's army is still reeling. > >But attacking the Saudis would be even easier. They are soft and spoiled. >Only yesterday Jerome Socolovsky of The A.P. wrote about how King Fahd >brought thousands of members of the House of Saud to Marbella, Spain, where >they stocked up on luxury items and hired North African servants. Women in >veils and waterproof robes rode Jet Skis and members of the royal family >talked about the 9/11 attacks as an Israeli-C.I.A. plot. > >A Saudi invasion would be like the Panama invasion during Bush I. We >already have bases to use there. And this time Mr. Cheney won't have to beg >the royals to use their air space, or send American forces. > >Once we make Saudi Arabia into our own self-serve gas pump, its neighbors >will get the democracy bug. > >The Saudis would probably use surrogates to fight anyway. They pay poor >workers from other countries to do their menial labor. And they paid the >Americans to fight the Iraqis in 1991. The joke among the American forces >then was: "What's the Saudi national anthem? `Onward, Christian Soldiers.' " > >We haven't been hit at home by any of Saddam's Scud missiles. But the human >missiles launched by Saudi Arabia have taken their toll. > > > > > >Have a nice day ! > > > >Jayanta Payeng > > > >Do You Yahoo!? > <http://rd.yahoo.com/finance/mailsig/new/*http://finance.yahoo.com>Yahoo! >Finance - Get real-time stock quotes
