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OT and contentious: Torture photos from Iraq
Bill Tuthill
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Glad I asked! I thought you were going to mention the strategic importance
of oil. Hard to say how many Saddam killed. Excluding wars, which maybe
I shouldn't, it was probably fewer than Tutsis killed by Hutus in Rwanda.
I don't deny the importance of Oil. Saddam would have been of much less concern
if he wasn't in a strategic location and had the oil money to finance his army.
The killings in Rwanda were well under way before the West had any concept of
what was going on there. It would have been difficult for the US to support a
mission there logistically, we are not a big presence in Central Africa. The
French did intervene, just late and probably helped the wrong side.
It seems to be true that Saddam supported Palestinian suicide bombers.
That "terra" justification implies we are fighting a proxy war for Israel.
Such a thing would not seem advisable on grounds of US national interest,
The PLO trained terrorist from everywhere during their heyday. Groups as
diverse as the IRA to the Shining Path. Do you really think that there isn't
still a connection between radical Islamist Groups? Al Quada has made several
attacks on Isreali interest outside of Isreal, so I don't know how to seperate
the two groups. The Islamist are the biggest impediment to the peace process
now. Why negotiate with the PLO when they are unable to provide you with the
basic security from bombers and attacks from these groups.
However it's worth nothing that Islam, especially fundamentalist Islam,
is by no means modern. These guys are not exactly going to make scientific
discoveries and exceed the west in knowledge of and capability for warfare.
You are mistaking Islamist, as in the Radical fundamentalist groups such as Al
Queda and Hamas, with Islam. Even in the first case, Al Queda and Hamas seem
pretty good at using modern technology to further their cause.
SYOTR
Larry C.
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