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Like I said...
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Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:18
AM
Subject: Re: Useful idiots
Actually, this was written by Claire Hoy, Canada's
foremost political journalist.
At 08:52 AM 02/26/2003, Cameron MacLean
wrote:
whatever...
Mindless
drivel out of the head of a redneck...
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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.
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>
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