From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 09:51:26 MST
In a message dated 3/30/2003 9:51:06 AM Central Standard Time,
gts_2000@yahoo.com writes: A lot can be learned from watching the Sopranos.
It's like mafia wars. In the first season's episodes (Gulf War #1), Saddam
tried to hire someone to whack Bush Sr. Now we're in the second season's
episodes (Gulf War #2). Bush Jr. is really, really mad that Saddam tried to
whack his dad in the last season's episodes, so he's going to whack Saddam.
GTS,
Am I correct that you consider this sequence of events as lamentable
-- that is to say that Bush Jr. should not retaliate against Sadaam Hussein
because he tried to kill Bush Sr.?
Search my memory as I might I cannot remember the Iraqis trying to
"whack" Bush Sr. But if that happened I assume it happened on Bill Clinton's
watch. What I want to know is this: why can a foreign government or ruler
decide to "whack" an American citizen without Bill Clinton reacting
vigorously?
I do remember that British Intelligence went to Franklin Roosevelt for
permission to "Whack" an American citizen before the Second World War. The
American was apparently spying for the Germans and was costing the British
ships as well as British lives. At that time allowing a foreign country to
kill an American was pure political poison. Roosevelt in his wisdom didn't
allow the British to do that. The man died at someone's hands so the problem
disappeared.
If Roosevelt would not permit allow a foreign friend to kill an
ordinary American Citizen guilty of spying against a friend why would you and
Ex-President Clinton allow a foreign enemy to kill one of our Ex-Presidents?
GTS, no country worthy of its salt allows its citizenry to be killed
by a foreign power so why was it okay for Sadaam to attempt to kill Bush Sr.,
if that is true?
Ron h.
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