#1. "RE: For those who oppose the war in Iraq" In response to scaramouche (Reply # 0) Sat Mar-01-03 06:14 AM
Yes an interesting article, I read it in the Telegraph when it first appeared. There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam is evil, almost beyond belief, but Iraq isn't, and for me...aye there's the nub, to steal from Shakespeare.
This monster's complete disregard for humanity ranks him alongside Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.
And how he's enjoying it, and I mean enjoying it. With the support of France, Germany and those other two noted guardians of world peace and human kindness, Russia and China.
#3. "RE: For those who oppose the war in Iraq" In response to ukmitch (Reply # 2)
>>"text-decoration=none; font-size=small"]This monster's >complete disregard for humanity ranks him alongside Hitler, >Stalin and Pol Pot. > >And how he's enjoying it, and I mean enjoying it. With the >support of France, Germany and those other two noted >guardians of world peace and human kindness, Russia and >China. > >Outrageous!!
Mitch: I do not think he is the only one enjoying this war on terrorism.
Yes, and he was embraced as the great friend and ally of both the US and Britain. Your continued wanton refusal to look a the complete picture really pisses me off.
The US backed KLO, committed brutal tortures in Yugoslavia. Chile's Pinochet, another US backed dictator tortured and murdered thousands. Many were tortured at a field while everyone watched. One man was a guitar player who's hands were cut off. They threw the guitar back at him, told him to play and laughed before they killed him.
Turkey, the scene of some of the worst atrocities of 1990s. Millions of people were driven out of the devastated countryside, with tens of thousands killed and every imaginable form of barbaric torture. They try to survive in caves outside the walls of Diyarbakir, in condemned buildings in miserable slums in Istanbul, or wherever they can find refuge. Eighty percent of the weapons came from the US. In 1997 alone, Clinton sent more arms to Turkey than in the entire Cold War period combined up to the onset of the state terror campaign – called “counterterror” by the perpetrators and their supporters, another convention. Turkey became the leading recipient of US arms.
Colombia achieved the worst human rights record in the Western hemisphere in the 1990s and was by far the leading recipient of US arms and military training, and now leads the world. It also leads the world by other measures, for example, murder of labor activists: more than half of those killed worldwide in the last decade were in Colombia. Close to ½ million people were driven from their land last year, a new record. The displaced population is now estimated at 2.7 million. Political killings have risen to 20 a day; 5 years ago it was half that.
The US continues to supply Israel with billions in arms while they have committed atrocities against the Palestinians who they hold under illegal occupation in violation of numerous UN resolutions, just like Iraq is suppose to be guilty of.
