<OT> Re: we shall remember them

[Net Llama!]

On 10/20/02 13:59, Robert Black Eagle wrote:

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> On Sunday 20 October 2002 2:17 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
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> >That's a beautiful analogy, however it doesn't address anything i've
> >said.  I'm not debating, nor am i denying that Saddam is a nut job.
> >What I am saying is that the US govt's reasoning for thumbing its nose
> >at international majority opinion is flawed & hypocritical.
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> It is truly amazing how political dialog degenerates into armchair
> psychology.  Iraq has long been an enemy (religiously) of Saudi Arabia 
> and
> al-Qaida.  It has refused to support it.  On the other hand, if we 
> want to
> cut off al Qaida's funding, we'd be attacking Saudi Arabia (also a rather
> cruel and corrupt dictatorship).  But the US has a unique situation. 
> Iraq
> was an embarrassment to Bush's father and it would (according to Bush 
> and his
> major supporters) harm his credibility if we don't attack Iraq.  And, 
> heaven
> knows, nothing is more important than that the US President should not be
> embarrassed.

Especially when he does such a fine job of embarrassing himself:
http://www.geocities.com/caleblauritsen/politics_bushisms_dictionary.html

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