From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 21:47:56 MDT
On 2 Aug 2002 at 19:17, Hermit wrote:
>
> The United States has dropped more tonnage of weapons on Iraq than
> were dropped in Europe during all of WW II. Were these intended to
> terrify the sands into submission?
>
And much more selectively (of course, selection was not as possible, or
as pursued, during WW II).
>
> The United States is directly responsible for the prolongation of the
> sanctions against water purification and sewage treatment supplies to
> Iraq.
>
And you know very well what chemical weapons can be made from
water purification chemicals and technology.
>
> Due to this, vast numbers of Iraqi children have died. If you
> were to collect these dead children and count them, they would equal
> the population of a city twice the size of Boston. I doubt that those
> children posed a threat to anyone (except in the long term their
> deaths probably do pose a threat to the United States).
>
Saddam Hussein had every chance to forfend same, simkply by playing
honestly with UNSCON, and did niot, because the deaths HE thereby
caused could be laid at the feet of the US, and the gullible (including,
apparently you), would buy that bill of goods, hook, line and sinker
(plus, he obviously valued the weapons he manages to secrete and
preserve more than he did his own people, whom he has had no
qualms about butchering).
>
> This is certainly more dead "collaterals" than any other single recent
> conflict has engendered in the Middle East. Again I suggest that the
> words and past actions of the US indicates that they are indeed the
> greatest threat to the people of the Middle East.
>
Your suggestion is, of courtse, absurd; had Saddam done the right
thing instead of the self-serving thing, those deaths would have been
avoided. That blood is on his hands; you are simply to blind to see it
shining there.
>
> Israel's attacks on the Palestinians and Lebanese forms the second
> greatest total of dead. As they continuously threaten their neighbors,
> they form the second largest threat.
>
Their neighbors continually threaten them, and have waged no less
than three multi-country wars of aggression on them since Israel's
inception. You are simply criticizing Israel for being better defenders
than their adversaries have been attackers.
>
> Meanwhile, all of the countries which you are claiming the US is
> attempting to save from the evil Saddam, are saying "don't do it."
> Which puts them in good company (infra).
>
Publicly. They themselves have to worry about attacks from both Al
Quaeda and Iraqi operatives, should they dare to state otherwise. And
some of them, being autocratic themselves, have much to fear from the
spread of participatory democracy.
>
> Hermit
>
> Gulf War II - How a War With Iraq Will Change the World
> It's not if but when. Here are the consequences.
> Source: FORTUNE
> (http://www.fortune.com/indext.jhtml?channel=print_article.jhtml&doc_i
> d=208461) Authors: Bill Powell Dated: 2002-07-08
>
<snip Hermit's cross-posted propaganda>
>
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