[TopQuark]

Didn't any of these clowns ever watch Schindler's List?

Oh, but for the Left every new dictator is different: this one is going to be humane. All previous ones -- Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Pol-Pot --- all distorted the true socialism.

How many Americans, including those supporting the war, even know that Baath Party is a socialist party?

[TopQuark]

Sorry, #10 was meant for you.

[ladyinred]

How many Americans, including those supporting the war, even know that Baath Party is a socialist party? 10 posted on 04/11/2003 4:44 PM PDT by TopQuark

Most likely not many. The socialists have pretty much covered up the truth of that term for years. As far as most people are concerned, Nazi's were conservatives, not socialists.

[southern_living]

All the 'secular' Arab regimes are old-fashioned Gramscian fascists, particularly the Baath party and all its ugly little terrorist off-shoots. I hate to sound pessimistic, but I don't see how any democratic-republic will work in that part of the world. We could help the Iraqis build a system similiar to ours and within 5 years it will be destroyed by tribal and religious infighting and shoot-outs over arguments about which caliph did what, when.