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Re: LEFT WING TRUE COLORS - YELLOW !!!!

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From: Glen Hallick
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:20
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"Carter Lee" <crlee@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Glen Hallick wrote:
>
> >>>What threat does Iraq pose to the US?
> >>
> >>It is a destabilizing influence on the Middle East, a very economically
> >>important part of the world.  Because we don't live in a vacuum it is
> >>therefore a threat to most of the world.
> >
> >
> > Exactly how is Iraq a destabilizing influence in the Middle East.
>
> If you have to ask that question you wouldn't understand the answer.

Heh, sounds more like you haven't got the faintest clue.



>
>   Other than
> > Iraq invading Iran in 1980, to which the US and the West were quite
happy
> > with, and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, what else has Iraq done to
> > destablize the region?
>
> Isn't that enough?
>

There's more.

Iraq forces have raided Turkish territory in the pursuit of Kurd rebels.
Turkey has also pursued rebels
into Iraq. Is this enough?


> > Ever think that Iraqi civilians, regardless of what they may think of
> > Saddamn Hussein, see the US and the UK as a threat?
>
> Sure they do, Saddam told them so.

So they are incapable of thinking for themselves and so need the
militaristic paternalism of the US to guide them.


> BTW it is only those who still live there, probably because they don't
> have the resources to leave, who believe that.  Those who have left
> clearly don't believe that.

Yup sounds like to me you don't give Iraqi civilians a hell of a lot of
credit.


Glen
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