My opinion is that Saddam was a destabilizing force for the region - a
region that will never, ever want to acheive peace with 'The Great Satan."
The fact that he was not in alliance with factions like Al-Kaida means he
was against them, and that the region would not totally unify under one
Muslim sect - the Shiites.
Now that Saddam has been removed from power, factions in Iraq are
aligning with factions in Iran. This is creating a force of enemies against
the US - a force that will not leave us alone, not allow any peace in Iraq
until we leave and they exert total control, and they will attack the US
when we do leave the area.
There is no democracy for Iraq. Democracy is not something that the
people of that region understand. They are not fighting for it, they don't
care about it. All we are doing is trying to teach our principles to a
people who will not understand them, and we will fail. I believe it's a
result of 'Cultural Relativism", as I learned in my ethics class.
I wish it was otherwise, but it's not. Iraq is now a huge problem that
cannot be fixed by us. There will be no democracy, and until there is a
very strong King or Shah or someone who has total control of the area, Iraq
will stay a war zone. It will join forces with Iran when the opportunity
presents itself, and we will see a much bigger problem than we had before.
Saddam was the lesser of many evils.
And no, I don't know where the oil is either. I think it's being hidden by
Dick.
- Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Iran
> Let me get this straight. Saddam was a good thing for the Middle East
> but democracy is not?
> We removed that great leader to take his oil? Where is it?
>
>
> On 12/14/05, Chesty Puller wrote:
>> I don't mind when thingsa are unilateral as slong as there is a good
>> reason. I didn't think there was good reason to go to war in Iraq, I
>> thought that Saddam was actually a good thing to have in that part of the
>> world because the Shiite Muslims hated him. He could have been an ally
>> in
>> the same way that Saudi Arabia is an ally. But the oil factions i n the
>> Bush administration wanted that oil in a bad way.
>> However, if the US sees a defnite threat, and I beleive Iran is far
>> more
>> threat than Iraq ever was, then we should just kill 'em all, with or
>> without
>> the UN or consensus or whatever. As long as there are good,
>> point-at-them
>> reasons, unlike the mythological WMDs.
>>
>
>
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