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To: lepton
Bin Laden is not the whole Islamic world/nation.

He's one pissed off pee on.

And if Bin Laden from Arabia is the new terror of the world , why are we going to kill a bunch of starving Iraqi's.

We ( not me )armed and trained saddam and remained his allies while he gassed his own people.

That makes "US" as dirty as him.

But hell let's kill somebody , to make ourselves feel right.

54 posted on 09/18/2002 4:27:09 PM PDT by Eustace
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To: Eustace
Bin Laden is not the whole Islamic world/nation.

He's one pissed off pee on.

He's a multi-billionaire who has spent a decade putting together a multi-national coalition of terrorists, with a great deal of funding by groups that want him to play in someone elses back-yard. He has been greatly aided by sects like the Wahabbi, who are resentful that the culture and religion of Islam is not the dominant one in the world. As an aside, study the behaviour and motivations for the Barbary states in the late 1700s and early 1800s.

And if Bin Laden from Arabia is the new terror of the world , why are we going to kill a bunch of starving Iraqi's.

Because their leader supports him as an aside to being thwarted by us.

As for starving, the only reason they do so is because of Sadaam's despotism. Iraq is relatively unique in the Arab world in that it is a self-sufficient country. You do recall the bread-basket of the Tigris and Euphrates river plains run through it, yes?

Note also that it has an industry capable of producing vehicles. It's not like most of its neighbors as far as native resources.

We ( not me )armed and trained saddam and remained his allies while he gassed his own people.

Wanna try that again? We gave him "some" intelligence support in a war against Iran, where we didn't like either side, and didn't want either side to win - but that has nothing to do with the main hatred Al Queda has and had for us. We certainly didn't arm him, and did very little in the way of training). If you want to talk about arming him, talk about the USSR and France (With some help on the chem warfare side from some German companies who were closed afterwards).

That makes "US" as dirty as him.

Well, given the gross oversimplification of the previous statement, this one follows it out the window.

But hell let's kill somebody , to make ourselves feel right.

He is dangerous. Even if one accepts that we had something to do with making him that way, that is a silly argument for not dealing with him. If we do it well - the more force, and the fastest - relatively few will die.

57 posted on 09/19/2002 6:03:17 AM PDT by lepton
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