Re: Paul Gigot on the Marsh Arabs

2003-07-27 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:29 PM 7/23/2003 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad Saddam is gone, and if that was Bush's motive for the invasion - WHY THE HELL DIDN'T HE SIMPLY COME OUT AND SAY SO instead of building such a flimsy case that Saddam had WMD Because people like you would have opposed the war for tha

Paul Gigot on the Marsh Arabs

2003-07-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003775 But the shock for a first time visitor to Iraq is that the destruction committed by Saddam's tyranny is so much worse than advertised. As Stalin did with the Kulaks, the Sunni Saddam then sought to erase the entire Arab Shiite

Re: Paul Gigot on the Marsh Arabs

2003-07-23 Thread TomFODW
Many on the political left have been reluctant to concede the special brutality of Saddam, as if admitting that truth would justify a war they opposed. Some genocides are apparently more equal than others. It's true that America can't right every wrong, or depose every dictator. But the U.S.