On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:58:05 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On 30 Jul 2003 22:44:14 -0700, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> belched
>> the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
>>>"Wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient and
>>>ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, 'To the captives, come out, and to
>>>those in darkness, be free."' President Bush II exhorting his soldiers on their
>>>Crusades.
>> 
>> So I take it you think freeing the Iraqi people from the Hussein
>> regime was a bad thing? Or are you just anti-Bush no matter what?
>
>I think Brett's sig is from http://www.monbiot.com/ - see "America Is a 
>Religion"
>
>Sepponia made Hussein who he was, supported him despite everything he 
>did, and despite media reports to the contrary, nobody in Iraq is free 
>yet. I can't speak for Brett re Sepponia's dear leader, but I have 
>relatives and friends serving in harms way in Iraq (both in the US 
>military and in others), and not only do I think they should have gone 
>there under the circumstances in which they did, I want them home ASAP.

And Britain appeased Hitler, making one less impediment in his path.
Sepponia very likely bears some similar guilt. Does that make coming
along afterwards and getting the living skeletons out of the camps any
less a good deed?

If you forgot a "not" in the next to last line, though, my opinion on
the matter largely resembles yours. Anybody who thinks those people
will either create or maintain anything resembling a democracy
probably forgot to exhale.




--

Michael Cash



"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College


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