From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Mark wrote:
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:45b1ac73$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:45b1a957$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Of course I understand that you feel we should have appeased Saddam
>> forever.
>>
>> Appeased?  He was totally contained under the most vicious sanctions ever,
>> and no threat to anyone.
>
> Really? He, and his sons, were no threat to anyone? I think a few hundred
> thousand Iraqi families digging in the sand to find the bodies of their
> relatives would dispute that line of crap.  and quote your Lancet numbers, and tut tut about the evil Americans>
>

Probably not a few hundred thousand iraqi families unless one counts the
 iran-iraq war dead & in that case (i.e. starting a war of aggression &
bearing the responsibility for the dead which resulted) .....well....Mr
Bush may have probs too.




>> Compared with today, I think they would have preferred being abandoned.
>
> You think? I think the survivors would disagree with your opinion from afar.
>
>> You already have done.  There's nothing the USA can do to bring peace to
>> Iraq.
>
> Nope we can't, it's up to them, with our support in the transition from
> totalitarian dictatorship to freedom -- that you maroons would have us cut
> and run at this point in time speaks volumes.
>
>

Ummm...tell that to the Egyptians et al who've just seen your admin "cut
& run" from promoting democracy & opposing authoritarianism in the ME in
favour of "stability"

Adam

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