From: John Cuccia 

Now suppose I hadn't answered your message?  

I don't think Phil is a fool, and I appreciate his passionately held
oppostion to an unprecedented pre-emptive strike on another nation.  I just
think his "it's all the USA's fault" rhetoric is intellectually
dishonest.  The political cover provided to Bush by the Blair
administration has been invaluable.

My personal feeling is that the Iraqis will be better off without Saddam
(and his sons an other political henchmen), but I fear we have
*grossly* overestimated our ability to install a workable Iraqi
democracy that will serve as a platform to transform the Middle East.

I believe we have also grossly underestimated the degree of enmity the
invasion is earning us in the Arab world.


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:48:54 -0500, "William F. Zachmann"
 wrote:

>"An answer to a fool is silence."
>
>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:lalg8v0pf5r4fmo75lehon1ba05i3daja6{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:42:56 +0200, Phil Payne
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >SOMETHING that went BANG wsa fired by someone.  Who fired it and what it
>> >was are irrelevant - the simple fact (which is incontrovertible, I hope)
>is
>> >that it woul dnot have been fired by anyone if the USA had not insisted
>on
>> >attacking Iraq.
>>
>> The USA is acting in concert with your government, Phil.  Hell, your
>> PM's staunch support helped legitimize this thing.
>>
>> >In Arab eyes (and in mine) the USA is responsible for that carnage - no
>> >matter whose toy it was.
>>
>> You should remember to include your country in the list of those you
>> feel are responsible.
>>
>

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