Whoops, I was wrong. This war started a good deal before then. Actually, it goes back, in one form or another, for thousands of years. About a hundred years ago, Britain had a go at drawing up the present maps of the countries in the Middle East, at least as we understand them today. Problem was, most of those new "nations" contained multiple tribes that never have gotten along with one another. But, Britain figured that they could come along and fix, in a few short years, a situation that had taken millenia to get to the condition it was in then. It didn't exactly work. Now, the United States is having a try at it. I have a bet that, like Britain's efforts before us, this effort will meet with somewhat less than stellar results. Anybody want to take the opposite bet? (Note: We're trying to install Democracy in Iraq at the moment. Problem is, the natives there, when you get right down to it, don't want Democracy. They want a Militant Islamic dictatorship government. The only question is, which one. Sunni? Shi-Ite? Wahabbi? Maybe others? Whichever one wins, it will have to fight off the others.)
For further details, get a copy of "Men's Health", the October 2004 issue. Turn to page 126 and begin reading. -----Original Message----- From: Defending the Truth discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rowland Scherman Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RHETORIC] Vote for Kerry On9/18/04 7:18 PM, Michael McMillan spake thusly: > This war didn't start on 9/11/01. It started much earlier, and just didn't > appear on our collective "radar screens" until that date. Militant Islam has > been at war with us for a decade before then, at least. Yes it started when Bush senior left an army in Saudi Arabia to help his oil cronies, who are far, far from democratic ideals. ----- ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================== 4 Portals - 2 Wikis - 2 Conferences -- No More BuSHIT! It all starts HERE: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) AND HERE: http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (Featured News) AND HERE: http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (Urgent News) ==============================================================
