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Quoth www@freenet.co.nz (WeeWillyWonka) in news:41a2cefb.1707486@news.iconz.co.nz:

> Your anti-Bush sig is wrongheaded though.  War is hell, and
> sometimes war is necessary.  

Certainly so, but this isn't one of those times.

If you get a chance, pick up a copy of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.

He knows from personal experience the real reason for this war,
and it has nothing to do with Saddam as a terrorist or military
threat, and everything to do with Saddam refusing to make Iraq a
client state to the Western corporatist hegemony.  You can find a
transcript of a recent interview of Perkins at
<http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251>, or
download audio and/or video of the interview. 

A brief excerpt to the point of Saddam:

    	And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so
    successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy.
    When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step
    is what we call the jackals. Jackals are C.I.A.-sanctioned
    people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If
    that doesn't work, they perform assassinations. or try to. In
    the case of Iraq, they weren't able to get through to Saddam
    Hussein. He had -- His bodyguards were too good. He had
    doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line
    of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the
    next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent
    in to die and kill, which is what we've obviously done in
    Iraq. 


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 George Bush's War of Choice on Iraq is a totally unnecessary war. 
  Every life lost, every limb lost, every disfigurement, every 
 disability caused there is more blood on George W. Bush's hands, 
   and on the hands of everyone who voted for George W. Bush.
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