----- Original Message ----- From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: Brin Calls for an Attack on Riyadh Re: Brin: David Frum on the War Plans
> 1. I was being sardonic about attacking Riyadh. Just recognizing > their enmity would enable us to demand that they choose between their > mansions and jihad. Right now, we allow them to have both. WHat a > deal. I wish my daddy owned a thousand oil wells and Dick Cheney. > > > 2. Our forces were 24 hours from liberating Basra in 1991. With that > city and the rest of southern Iraq safe, and the kurdish north safe, > Saddam would have had no oil and no victims. We could have then > sifted through our 200,000 prisoners for enough to make several eager > divisions of the Army of New Iraq and sent THEM to Baghdad. Or let > Saddam stew till someone shot him. With no oil, and steadily > strengthening Shiite and Kurdish republics hemming him in, his days > would be numbered. > > It was a no-brainer. And hell yes I would have voted against Colin > Powell after that. Any time any place anywhen anyhow. > > The record shows that it was frantic messages from Ankara and Riyadh > that made Bush Sr. call a halt. They hated the idea of free > Kurdistan and free shiite arabs. Each of them have huge minorities > of those groups nearby. And you will never, ever see a Bush make a > decision that harms the interests of a Saudi prince. > > Again, these are the turkeys who made this situation. They dishonored > us when we betrayed the shiites (see the movie Three Kings). They > are now waging this war in the dumbest possible way, though I pray > the competence of our troops will prevail. > > I didn't say any of that. When W crosses the Rubicon, I supported > him all along. > So who do they hate more, the U.S. or rival tribes? George A _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
