In a message dated 1/28/07 5:17:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What countries do you speak of that we have brought hell to? Afghanistan, or > Iraq? Hell was already there long before we set foot there. The rest of the > middle eastern countries, we have just poured billions of dollars into either > in aid or for oil. > two examples: Iraq is far worse off now that the US has invaded- more wide-spread misery and more death. We assassinated Iran's first democratically elected ruler and installed the 'shah', who ran a brutal regime at least the equal of Saddam's. With Iraq, at least there is some hope that they, Shiia and Sunni, can settle their differences and learn to live in a democratic government and share their wealth equally. Under Saddam they never knew what hell he was going to put them through next. Starvation and denial of public services while he built palaces for himself, wars with Kuwait or Iran, poison gas attacks killing thousands and no hope of any justice and constant fear for life for criticizing the government.The Shah was the one mistake we did make in that region. We should have done everything we could have to keep him in power. He was no more brutal than the creeps running the country today and we didn't have to worry about some Shiite Islamic Fundamentalism causing mischief in the rest of the region.
