whatever... Mindless drivel out of the head of a redneck...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MacLean List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: Useful idiots > Modern day `useful idiots' It was Lenin, of course, who coined the apt > phrase "useful idiots" to describe the legion of defenders and apologists > in the Western democracies for his murderous regime. > > These misguided ideological groupies continued apace during Stalin's > man-made famine in the Soviet Union - which killed more people than died in > Hitler's Holocaust - and through Mao's man-made famine in Communist China, > which caused even more deaths than Stalin's heinous activities did. > > Lenin, Stalin and Mao, of course, are long gone. But the armies of "useful > idiots" remain alive and well in the West, as witnessed by the-so- called > "peace" marches - i.e. mostly anti-American, with a side-order of > anti-Israeli - in major cities in the free world last weekend. > > The same sorry mentality which many Britains displayed in 1939 to cheer > Chamberlain's pronouncement of "Peace in our Time," after his (in)famous > meeting with Hitler - and pooh-poohed Winston Churchill's warnings of > danger - was on display both on the streets of cities around the world and > in the mainstream media too boot. > > Nobody seems to be demanding that Iraqi dictator. Saddam Hussein should > actually live up to numerous United Nations resolutions which have > condemned his arms buildup. Instead, the peaceniks are hellbent on making > the Americans the bad guys. > > Nobody blinks when France, the most hypocritical nation on earth - which > has supplied Hussein with more deadly weapons than any other country (at > one point in the 1980s 40 per cent of all French arms exports were going to > Iraq) - threatens to use its veto on the UN security council to hold the > West to ransom. > > The American-haters consistently claim that U.S. President George Bush is > really after Iraq's oil. The fact is, it is France, more than any other > country, which has traded any principles it may have once had in return for > more Iraqi oil, and it is France - even more than Germany (which, besides > its own fine history of promoting world peace, has supplied Hussein with > most of his chemical weaponry) - which is desperate to keep Iraqi oil > flowing in and French merchandise flowing out. > > It was France who sold Iraq its Mirage F-1 fighter planes. It was France, > when no other country would agree, who sold Hussein the advanced technology > he needed three decades ago to build a nuclear reactor (the one Israel blew > up 20 years ago.) It was France which led the opposition to sanctions > against Iraq after Hussein attacked Kuwait and lobbed missiles at Israel. > It was France - followed by the Russians, Italians, British and to a much > smaller degree the Americans - who armed Hussein after he started the > Iran-Iraq war, yet every day on the streets and in the media we hear the > Big Lie that it was the Americans who armed Hussein and now they want to > disarm him. > > The people out marching on the streets - even those who are quite genuine > in their concerns about war - should ask themselves whether the Iraqi > people, whom they claim to be concerned about, are better off being forced > to live under Hussein or would be better off with Hussein gone. The answer, > surely, is obvious. > > As for Canada, well, Prime Minister Jean Chretien managed to go to Chicago > last week and tell an American audience that Americans, our best friends > and allies - not to mention major trading partners - can't be trusted to > tell the truth. Compared to Hussein? Can he be serious? > > What's more, it is easy to stand up for peace, as Chretien and the > protesting peaceniks do, and criticize U.S. policy, without bothering to > offer any alternative. > > Chretien says it's best to go through the UN. Well, the Americans - and > their true allies, which includes most Western countries, except Canada, > France, Germany and Belgium - have gone through the UN. Over and over again. > > Finally, because of U.S. insistence that Hussein was laughing in their > faces the Security Council passed a resolution demanding Hussein to disarm > or face serious consequences. > > So what consequences to these yahoos have in mind? Why, yet another > sharply-worded resolution. > > Why doesn't Chretien - along with his anti-American soulmates - demand that > Iraq explain itself before the UN, rather than put the onus on George Bush > or Tony Blair to explain their actions? > > As for France, we see in recent dispatches that they've now invited another > maniacal dictator, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to visit, just two days after > the European Union renewed its sanctions against him. > > Even Hussein must be surprised at just how many useful idiots there are in > the West. > _______________________ > Scott MacLean > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 9184011 > http://www.nerosoft.com > >
