At 07:33 AM 3/9/2004 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
Has anyone considered that the U.S. wants to have the
ability to project power in that region, and that the
enironment for doing so from bases in Saudi Arabia is
taking a turn for the worse. Regardless of how the
Iraqi government shapes up, we will
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
(snip)
Presuming either that the US invaded Iraq in order
to intimidate other Moslem countries, as I think,
or to destroy dangerous weapons, or to enforce a
mandatory UN resolution, or, as enemies of the
Adminstration claim, in order to delay the pricing
of oil
At 01:08 AM 3/1/2004 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
A question at hand is whether Iran, ruled by Shi'ite Moslems, is
gaining power amongst its co-religionists in Iraq?
This strikes me as having vestiges of xenophobic racism.
Shias are the majority religious denomination in Iraq. The US
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:08 AM 3/1/2004 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
A question at hand is whether Iran, ruled by Shi'ite Moslems, is
gaining power amongst its co-religionists in Iraq?
This strikes me as having vestiges of xenophobic racism.
Shias are
At 10:00 PM 3/1/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote:
This fits your (JDG's) MO perfectly. Why not have a tyranny of the
majority over the minorities? In fact why even give Sunni's, kurds or
christians any rights at all? After all they are only minorities, and
according you (JDG), any majority has the
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the Diseased Christian Mind wrote:
This strikes me as having vestiges of xenophobic racism.
Shias are the majority religious denomination in Iraq.
The US must consider a government dominated by Iraqi
Shias to not necessarily be a
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
The question is whether a year or more ago, he and/or the Iraqi
National Council provided the US with `intelligence' that was designed
to influence the US to act against Saddam Hussein's government and do
so in a way that benefited
At 06:00 PM 2/29/2004 + Robert J. Chassell wrote:
This does tell us that Chalabi is happy and suggests that he did not
mind whether the intelligence was accurate.
While that is n degrees to cavalier.
The world is better off today than it was one year ago today.
We should make no apologies
I wrote
the US looks at the moment to be gaining less than Iran has
gained. This is the issue.
and John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded
I totally disagree:
1) The US has gained the peaceful strategic removal of its forces from
Saudi Arabia
That is true. However,
I wrote
The analyses I have seen suggest that the US invaded Iraq in
order to intimidate other Muslim countries
and John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded
1) The DPRK is not a Muslim country.
That is true, North Korea is not Muslem. Good point. If, as I think,
the main
Much of the intelligence used by the Bush Administration in planning
its attack on Iraq came from Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National
Council.
That information was wrong in various ways:
* No nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons readily found during
the most active part of the
From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The question is whether a year or more ago, he and/or the Iraqi
National Council provided the US with `intelligence' that was designed
to influence the US to act against Saddam Hussein's government and do
so in a way that benefited Iran more than
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