Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 EH>>>>> THEY do. The Serbs, the Albanians, the Croats,
Bosnians, ALL of
 EH>>>>> them put it in the perspective of 600 years. We cannot impose
 EH>>>>> our will on them and force them to forget that
history, it is in
 EH>>>>> their blood.

 BA>>> Hmm.  The Shiites and Sunnis in the Middle East have been going at
 BA>>> each other for over a millenium.  Yet we *can* impose our will on
 BA>>> them?  My how things can change in seven years.  You don't suppose
 BA>>> it's just because a Republican administration is running this
 BA>>> country, do you?

 EH>> Actually, they haven't been going after each other as much as you'd
 EH>> like to think.

 BA> SOMEBODY is killing all those people over there.

All what people? You mean Hammas and Fatah? Nothing religious about that conflict.

 EH>> In fact, we intercepted papers from Iranian insurgents in Iraq that
 EH>> show they have been working with terrorists from both the Sunni
 EH>> Triangle and the Shi'ites in the south. Remember, the Persians (Iran)
 EH>> are Shi'a. The biggest problems Iraq and the other Arab countries
 EH>> have with Iran is not a Muslim sect difference, but a racial
 EH>> difference Arab v. Persian.

 EH>> Besides, we aren't imposing our will on anyone.

 BA> We're not?  Our troops were *invited* in to take over the country
 BA> and install a new government?

Actually, they were invited, but George Bush the Elder didn't accept the
invitation. For that, Saddam murdered hundreds of thousands of Shi'ites in
the south and Curds in the north.

 EH>> We are helping them rebuild their country and government.

 BA> Most of which our troops - and/or ten years of embargos - broke.

Total, unadulterated nonsense. Saddam broke it with his murderous sons' help.

Ed

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