On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:11:32AM -0500, Sunder wrote: > That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, "we" put, or > at least helped, that monster into power.
Not really, no. > So, while he was our puppet, He was never out puppet. > he was the good guy, He was never the good guy, and was never called a good guy by "us". Well, except for the idiots who are now calling for his release, I guess. > and > no matter how many > he murdered, he was a benevolent leader. Not really, no. > Now, we'll put a different "democratic" government in place. Of course, > it won't be as free as the USA, nor have the same kind of constitution - > that would be a problem since we couldn't control it's oil. If all we wanted was to control its oil we wouldn't try to put a democratic government in place, with or without the quote. Gosh, the oil-conspiracy nutcases are so dumb, it's tiring. > Nothing new, nothing to be surprised about. Exactly, a bunch of lies from the usual quarters. A stream of revisionist history from useful idiots hell-bent on making it ALL OUR FAULT, ever and ever again. It's a movable feast. > The war on terror itself will go on for as long as the voters will > tolerate it, or until it's true goals succeede and it becomes impossible > for the voters to do anything but accept it - or be disappeared in the > middle of the night... Not much different than in Stalin or Hitler's > days. You don't know much about Stalin's or Hitler's times, do you? -- avva