where are these quotes from, Gel? On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:03:30 -0400, Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "We warned the Bush Administration that invading Iraq (news - web sites) > would destabilize the Middle East and spread radical anti-American > Islamism. We told the American people that taking out Saddam Hussein > (news - web sites) without a viable government to replace him would open > a vacuum for anarchy, civil war and a power grab by radical > Iranian-backed Shiite clerics. Now the antiwar movement's doomsday > scenarios have been fulfilled so completely that military history > scarcely mentions a more thoroughly botched endeavor--and we'll be > living with the fallout for years. " > > "allied commander Lt. Gen. David McKiernan announced that the peshmerga > would be allowed to keep its automatic weapons and heavy > artillery--becoming Kurdistan's de facto army. A few days later, Kurdish > leaders announced plans to continue expanding their territory. "Now we > are back in Mosul," regional governor Nechirvan Barzani told The New > York Times. "We control Senjar and Mosul provinces. We want to add the > other parts of Kurdistan." > > The most significant "other part" lies across the Iraqi-Turkish border. > If Turkish Kurds armed by their Iraqi counterparts fight to attach > southeastern Turkey to Iraqi Kurdistan, bloody civil wars and ethnic > cleansing could sweep across Turkey to Eastern Europe and the > Caucasus--potentially claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. " > > "SCIRI and other Shiite groups are already using their weapons and > demographics--60 percent of Iraqis are Shia Muslims--to transform Saddam > Hussein's modern secular dictatorship into a fundamentalist Islamic > state melding Iranian Shiaism to Taliban-style Sharia law. Incredibly, > American occupation forces are working with, and even financing, these > anti-American zealots. " > > "Shiite militias that control Baghdad's vast Sadr City slum are already > enforcing the mullahs' diktats. Sheik Kadhem al-Fartusi, who asserts > that "Islam and all religions forbid alcohol," runs a local gang that > beats liquor vendors and men who refuse to grow beards. "He's the > primary shaker and mover here," U.S. Special Operations Maj. Arthur P. > Vidal told The Times. Special ops troops pay Fartusi's religious police > with "bricks of Iraqi dinars." > > Presidents Reagan and Bush I armed and funded similar men with identical > religious and political beliefs in Afghanistan during the 1980s and > 1990s. The result was Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Osama bin Laden (news - web > sites), September 11, 2001. So why the hell are we doing it again? " > > Well..so far there haven't been any evidence brought by the Bush > administration to refute these 'Doomsday' scenarios. > No WMD...continuing and perhaps escalating terrorist attacks > overseas,complete lack of stability in Iraq (the argument that under > Saddam there was no stability is easily refuted). Osama still talking > about blowing up the western world (he'll start with the US but surely > move on from there to all those that aren't muslims that share a certain > religious viewpoint), and the US using an excuse that Saddam probably > moved his WMD to Iran or Syria (good god! Now that's much worse than if > he'd kept them at home isn't it? ). > > It's really quite ironic that in the midst of all this there is a US > backed 'Peace Plan' for the Middle East. Does the US intend to keep > EVERYONE in check under threat of military invasion, rather than through > stable self governance?? > > -Gel > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
