From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 04:49:36 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Spike opined:
>
> <<In the meantime Scott Ritter, the Repulican Marine who was on the UN
> inspection team in Iraq, says they got almost all of Iraq's weapons and it's
> been watched too closely to build new ones, even after inspections
> stopped. >>
>
> I am betting against Uncle Saddam's niceness and betting on his "will to
> power". The man did not rise to power by being a man of reason, but
> rather a man of determination. His role model was never Hitler, but was
> Comrade Stalin (despite Iraq's cozy relationship with the Reich during
> WW2, and cozier relationship with the Commies post 1945). You really
> don't believe that Mr. Saddam doesn't wish to flatten Washington, or
> depopulate Miami with plague? My opinion is even Republican ex-Marines
> can occasionally be wrong-headed.
So, you are willing to embroil us and the entire region in war
based on your notion of what Saddam would like to do but that
there is no evidence he can do? Every leader of every country
on the face of the earth probably has considerable "will to
power". Does that mean we should attack all of them? Never, in
the most inflated versions of Saddam's worse sins did he begin
to approach the unspeakable immoral stature of a Stalin. The
very suggestion or allusion here is pointless. What Saddam may
wish is nothing but some guess. It is immaterial as a
justification for war.
- samantha
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