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www@freenet.co.nz (WeeWillyWonka) wrote in message news:<419f563a.596059@news.iconz.co.nz>...
> On 20 Nov 2004, noisybrain@yahoo.com (Morrissey Breen) wrote:
> >Apparently, there are also some unfortunate New Zealanders who believe
> >those lies.  I don't mean those with a wicked sense of humour, such as
> >our friend Metcalfe and your good self.   I mean people who BELIEVE
> >the lies.  Maybe you know a few of them....
> 
> I reckon Saddam bought the farm when he started paying off the
> families of Palestinian suicide bombers.  This showed that he was
> willing to support terrorists.

He was currying favour with the Arab world by supporting the
Palestinian resistance.  And yes, I do think that suicide bombing is
morally indefensible, and Saddam was wrong.  It's interesting, though,
to see you label the palestinian resistance terrorists, correctly, as
terrorists, while turning a blind eye to the state terror of the
Israeli regime.  Supported politically and financially by the United
States.

I think you are astute enough to appreciate your inconsistency; the
only question is whether you possess the strength of character to
admit it.
 
>
> There was no reason to suppose that
> such support would stop there. 

They were preparing to invade the US, huh!

>
> As Bush said in his post 9/11 speech,
> those who harbour terrorists will be held as accountable as the
> terrorists themselves. 

Words rich with irony, coming from the lips of the president of
Israel's chief backer.

> 
> I'm reminded of the old Star Trek episode where both Kirk and the
> Klingon.... <snip>.... "Think of the glory!".  Bush has destroyed Saddam's terror-
> supporting regime and is trying for the glory of building a democratic Iraq.
> Good for him.
> 
> But there is bigger "glory" in view.  Iran is close to building
> nuclear weapons, and to the south, Saudi Arabia's Wahhabist regime is
> the biggest source of terrorism that there is.  Will you be able to
> stand the glory, Morrissey? 

Wonka, what's disturbing about this is not your blithering repetition
of Bush's non-case for invasion, but your apparently irony-free use of
the term "glory".  Not only are you supporting the corrupt and cynical
politics of the looney fundamentalist extreme right, but you're
adopting their way of thinking.

You seem malleable and frighteningly ignorant ---- obviously, you're
no more capable of clear and critical thinking than you were 25 years
ago, when you supported the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.