[Ax]

I was working in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war. The army and the secret police went around the country rounding up gold from families. They took jewelery that had been in some of these families for generations. It was a "comply or die" operation. Ostensibly, the gold was being redeemed to buy arms and ammunition for the war against the moslems. Now we see where it REALLY went.

[RightOnline]

I suggest we take Baghdad; drive out Saddam and his cronies and just occupy the place. Then.............we strip these "palaces" of their gold, melt it all down, and refill the Iraqi coffers for the good of the Iraqi people. We don't take one thin dime.

THAT would have the Iraqis and the rest of the Muslim world scratching their heads...............