Jan Matthieu wrote:
[snip]
> Fourthly everyone with a bit
> of sense agrees Saddam Hoessein is a dictator and criminal, oppressing his
> own people, which is quite something different from the north Vietnamese
> leaders who at least were idealists.
[snip]
I never heard this. I always was told that it was BETTER to be
dead THAN RED. I was told that the only reason the Vietnamese
(and all other persons all over the world) served the Communists
was that they were brainwashed and terrorized. The only
idealists in Vietnam were persons like Madam Nu(sp?) and
General Ky(sp?). Ho Chi Minh was a butcher. The Vietnamese
hated him --> and, of course, worst of all, was that
he was only a "domino": If the Communists won
in Vietnam, the next thing we knew they would be in Thailand
then India then Turkey and then Greece and then Yugoslavia
(Oops! they were already there...) and then in
Germany and then in France and then in London and then
in Lower Manhattan. Get real!
> All Arabs unite behind Saddam? He would certainly like it, but there is
> little or no chance of that.
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The only reason Saddam Hussein is still in power
in Iraq is that the United States government
was convinced 10 years ago that he serves our interests better
than the alternative ("instability"). Of course
we would rather have Jeb Bush as President of Iraq,
but even the United States cannot have everything it
wants -- at least not immediately. "Human rights" has
nothing to do with it.
--
My hypothesis is that if the U.S. goes into Iraq,
AlQaeda will soon follow. It will be like trying to
light up a cigarette in a house where there is a
*big* gas leak. I did not think up this idea.
The big gas leak, of course, is: Palestine!
--
We have the best of both worlds already in Iraq:
We can shoot at him without anybody caring.
And don't forget the Kurds: They are scared to
death of *any* outcome of a change in the
status quo, where they are experiencing a "renaissance"
under the cover of the "Northern No Fly Zone".
THey never had it before and they don't expect to have
it again.
The Kurds know that any change in the status quo
will seal up the "cracks" through which they have
had the good fortune to "fall" since 1991 .
The good thing about growing old is that
you don't have so much to lose any more.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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