On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Richard Barker wrote:

> Surely we could agree on a few points here:
>
> 1. The US and most Western countries have at some point supplied
> weapons or
> military expertise to some very unsavoury characters around the world
> including Saddam and Bin Laden.
> 2. Military forces representing the West have done some pretty nasty
> things
> (Black ops, South America, etc)
> 3. All governments lie (Irangate, Watergate, etc)
>
> As you can see from this article, the US has in general supported
> dictators
> when it suits them, so it has absolutely no moral high ground here.
>
> http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
>
> Added to this the fact that we have little to no evidence that Iraq
> has any
> weapons of mass destruction or that he would even be interested in
> using
> them against the West, then you have no basis for war.
>
> The only possible conclusion is that the Western allies want control
> of the
> Oil.

I agree, with the possible change of "Western allies" to "United States
leaders".

FW

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