al-Qaeda is not the same thing as the Palestinians? I don't think
anyone is saying Saddam was a nice guy or an ideal neighbor for the
rest of the Mideast. But the question is, I thought, whether he was
working with al_Qaeda, one, and two whether or not the Bush
administration said he did.
It seems to me that we have gone from questioning the patriotism of
those who question the link to questioning the patriotism of those who
remember a link being made.
Dana
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:33:00 -0400, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about giving money to the families of Palestinian Terrorists, how many
> people are dead because of that?
>
> Also that number looks like its from IraqBodyCount.com
>
> Their totals include things like car bombing performed by the foreign
> fighters and terror groups that are currently operating out of Iraq.
>
> These numbers also include items like car accidents where a woman hit a US
> Military vehicle, a non-combat accident that could just have easily happened
> if we or weren't there. So by these numbers, other items included are
> suicide bombings of pilgrims to Shi'ite shrines, if these pilgrimages had
> been done under Saddam then they would have all been killed as what they
> were doing was illegal under Saddam.
>
> I just don't see how you can blame these deaths on the US military, sure if
> we weren't there terrorists would be trying to kill us, if they country
> wasn't in the process of forming a democratic government, then terrorists
> wouldn't be trying to kill the interim leaders, if the country were back to
> it old dictatorship where things like satellite TV were illegal and
> punishable by torture, then sure, maybe people wouldn't be getting killed.
>
> I'm sorry, those numbers don't mean anything to me, they are a spin on the
> facts.
>
>
>
> _____
>
>
>
> There are lots of reasons to remove lots of leaders. The case against
> Saddam, when WMD and 9/11 fall flat, are that he was a bad man who
> killed his own people. Saddam is reported to have killed about 300,000
> in the span of 30 years. That works out to 10,000 a year. We've killed
> between 11,143 and 13,096 civilians. If Saddam was bad, then what are
> we?
>
> I'm not saying that Saddam was justified in his actions. I'm saying
> that we're not justifying ours.________________________________
>
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