From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 14:00:49 MDT
In a message dated 6/7/2003 1:54:44 PM Central Standard Time,
Spudboy100@aol.com writes: There's an old saying that "Nice guys don't win ballgames", to
which I would add, Survival is not a popularity contest, which I would apply this
to at least one group in the Middle East.
Spudboy,
You might review the bidding in this game also. The so called Moslem's
in the middle east have bombed our ships. When one of those countries invaded
a 2nd and threatened a 3rd we went over to help. We ran Sadaam back into his
own country and were fully sensitive to their Islamic sensitivities in the
process. If it we whipped anyone it was in their defense.
After more injuries inflicted on us we sent a reported 185 men on the
ground in Afghanistan and ran both the Taliban and the Al Qaida out of the
country. When Sadaam would not comply with the UN ultimatum to prove he had no
WMDs we removed him with ridiculous ease. In all the combat we had in that
country we did not kill anywhere near as many people as Sadaam killed in peacetime.
Now, that we have begun working to rebuild Iraq we are getting guerilla
volunteers from all the surrounding countries including Egypt trying to slow
or prevent the rebuilding of Iraq.
Why would they do that? Those "volunteers" are in Iraq with the
approval of their governments just as they were in Afghanistan. If you read the
media over the last two years you will find that the leaders, Egypt especially,
are trying desperately to hold the lid on before they are either chased out of
country or left swinging from a lamp pole.
Yet the best advice MEZ can give us is not to send so many bombs and
missiles. What bombs and missiles? We have sent them on fewer occasions against
them than they have against us. Certainly the number is very close but
always in reply to assault from them.
At first MEZ gave his advice because he was a middle easterner and
therefore held special expertise. Now he is a poor Egyptian Christian that hasn't
been in the country since he was 3 years old. At first he lambasted the US
and its policies, now he is a loyal American and I mustn't criticize him.
Frankly, I am confused. It is like listening to a windshield wiper -- flip, flop,
flip, flop. Only one thing is consistant with him, everything he says is
detrimental to our country, IMHO.
Ron h.
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