From: Ad 

Phil Payne wrote:
>> ... building on an already existing lack of support for the regime among
> Iranians.
>
> You have to wonder where they get this shit from.  Same with Iraq - "They
> will welcome us toppling an oppressive dictator".
>
> Bollocks.

Oh quite. Being seen to be in anyway supported by the US is becoming
poisonous right round the region. Look at Fateh. One wonders quite how
chuffed the Lebanese gov was wrt pickies of a US mil transport on the
ground at Beirut international. I am surprised it wasn't a night flight. I
suspect that any future flights will be.


>
> Iraq had possibly the most enlightened regime of all Arab states, including
> as one example an unrestricted right of divorce for women.  Now one has been
> stoned to death for trying to marry someone from another religion.  This is
> somehow progress?
>

Indeed not. Why bother bombing someone into the stone age where the simple
removal of legal authority will do the job......


> I cannot get my mind around the USA's hatred for Saddam Hussein.  I just
> cannot understand what he was doing that could in ANY way be considered even
> moderately unpleasant.  He tried out the USA's poison gas and was revolted
> by the results.  He was vehemently anti-terrorism and even had Abu Nidal
> killed when he wouldn't leave.
>

I wouldn't characterize him thus. He was violently anti-AQ (along with the
other western bugbear of Qaddafi). However he did organize etc the whole
Iranian embassy thing in the 80'es & various other unpleasant events.


> And as for all the bullshit - no WMD, no torture records, no rape rooms, no
> tunnels under Baghdad, nothing.  NOTHING.
>
> Actually the only country documented to have used torture is the USA.
>

That's simply not true Phil.



Adam

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