From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 16:27:50 MDT
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 12:38 PM, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/30/2002 12:28:59 PM Central Standard Time,
> samantha@objectent.com writes: "Again I point out that no less than
> Madeline Albright agreed publichly with these facts. That is a bit
> difficult to sweep under the rug." And then rephrases her basic
> argument, "This is one of the worst cases of floating oblivious on a
> certain river in Egypt that I have seen. If President after
> president declares this is US policy and acts accordingly then exactly
> where is there wiggle-room on this? The president is "not just one
> person". He acts and speaks for the country in that office."
>
> Samantha,
> What we have is what you found reported in the media. I remember
> when the media reported it a different way. I remember that after the
> Gulf war the media reported that Sadaam was being left a route to
> finance the medicines, etc his country required. Later it was reported
> that he had chozen to spend his money on weapons not on children, the
> elderly and the ill. No one is arguing with your number of deaths but
> I for one am not accepting guilt for what he did.
> Ron h.
>
Cheney, Halliburton, sold parts to Iraq to rebuild his oil wells.
Iraq's economy is based on oil. Iraq tried to reestablish its economy.
How did Saddam rearm? That sounds ridiculous. He was too busy
rebuilding water treatment plants to offer his indigent peoples drinking
water. I find it hard to believe his armory much different than post
Gulf War levels. In counting the surface-to-air missile stores, they
should be about the same, unless the new Soviet system was bought from
the Ukraine.
All Saddam's planes defected to Iran. What does Iran do with the planes?
Hussein is a fascist dictator. He's elected by a single party. Zheng
Jao Min, "Jiang Zemin", is elected by a single party. China actively
promotes territorial aggression in the Himalayas and against Moslems in
China, in Nepal they're called Maoist ____.
It wasn't much in the news that American oil companies in Kuwait
slant-drilled into Iraq and stole billions of dollars worth of oil to
cause the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait when Kuwait would not pay for the
oil. Thusly, the United States taxpayers and its "coalition" paid for
it, along with the lives of hundreds of thousand of Iraqis, military and
civilian.
From now on, let us never say that the United States government bought
anything, but that the taxpayers did.
It takes two to tango.
Plainly, I don't see Saddam or Iraq as a threat.
Ross
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