--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 12/9/05 7:38:45 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > Several years ago TMO had considered Fidel Castro the > > > personification > > > > of the Invincibility principle, or something like that. It > was > > > quite > > > > appropriate given the more than 400, if I remember correctly, > > > > assassination attempts against his person organized by the > CIA > > and > > > the > > > > Miami mafia... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Too bad they didn't get him like they did that other mass- > > murderer > > > Che Guevara. > > > > > > Castro is responsible for about 50,000 deaths and enslaving 11 > > > million Cubans. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Could you imagine the out cry had they been successful? Ramsey > > Clark could > > > have jump started his hate America carrier in the early > sixties! > > < Castro was > > > small potatoes compared to Saddam who killed maybe 2 million > and > > enslaved 24 > > > million Iraqis under slightly similar circumstances. However no > > Invincibility > > > awards for Mr. Hussein. Yet ! > > > > > > > > Alot of the anti-Bushies on this forum would just LOVE to have the > > pre-U.S.-invasion status quo back so that Saddam and his kinder > > would be free to murder more. > > > > I am very firmly anti-Bush because he is so anti-American. Having > said that, we sure cherry pick our dictators to get outraged over > don't we? > > There were enough in the collective consciousness of the US who, > following 9/11, resisted their ability to determine why we were > attacked, primarily by Saudi Arabian radicals, and instead decided > that they were angry, and it was someone's fault in the Middle East. > > The Bushies, wanting to take over Iraq for awhile due to its > strategic oil value, and to finish a war that Bush the first began, > decided Iraq was the target. > > This high handed crap about removing an oppressive dictator and > setting the Iraqis free is politically self-serving, and defames the > true ideal of liberty which this country was founded on. >
That oil was a major factor in which dictator we chose to depose is one I will readily acknowledge. And what's wrong with that? I use gas on a daily basis, don't you? So what's so wrong about factoring in that as part of our decision- making? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
