From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 22:53:53 MST
Damien said:
<<They're opposed to us attacking another nation, not opposing their own
nations
being involved. Well, that too, but the main concern is about the attack.
And these are people who were sympathetic with us after 9/11, and were okay
with the attack on the Taliban and al Qaeda. Because there was a connection
between 9/11 and al Qaeda, the way there isn't with Iraq.>>
They are opposed to us messing with their business partner, Saddam. They are
opposed to a militarilly powerful United States, that cannot be controlled by
their common will (obey us!). Their sympathy for 9-11 was a kilometre wide
and a micron deep. That Chirac, on 9-12 said "We are all Americans, today" is
as questionable as a check in the mail, assertion. Actions speak louder then
words, and the protection of Iraq that France and so many others have tried
to afford a tyrant; a leader who has assisted and armed and nutured our worst
enemy,(Osama and the Islamists-not a 50's rock band!) is the loudest voice of
all.
<<Mass protests across the world based on lining their pockets?>>
No they hate America's, not our government's, but America's guts. Many
must've been ( I conclude) thrilled by the 9-11 attack, though probably
demure about voicing such a joy.
<<Remember Le Monde's headline "We are all Americans" after 9/11? Some
hatred
there. Maybe, instead of hatred, they fear a giant developing a victim
mentality and turning into a blundering bully.>>
Again, phonier than a 3- franc bill, in my opinion. They fear us screwing up
their cozy relationship with the Islamists, which is something I also accuse
Bush Sr. of of cultivating. Bush and Baker caved into Saudi pressure back in
1991, and thousands of Shiites were slaughtered by dear, Saddam.
<<Blair's dossier on Iraq was widely reported as plagiarized; claims of Iraq
buying uranium from Niger are from forged documents. Not saying we did
the forging ourselves, but we used them, despite CIA skepticism>>
Uranium is not, nor ever was the central issue. Not when the CIA, under its
own steam, seemed to possess information regarding Saddam's ownership,
despite the 1991 truce that his ministers signed, promising to disown
biological and chemical weapons. All this, Tony Blair, not withstanding. It
the bio and chem weapons that have prompted Bush assualt on Iraq, not nukes,
not yet. You have been reading or viewing about several thousand Tox suits
and atropine injectors being found? Or do you believe that to be a CIA
mannipulation?
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