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Canada's Military

Contributor: cfallon

Date: 2003-04-14 15:35:42


Essentially, because to liberate Iraq means:

1) You have the opportunity for a free press in the Arab middle east.

2) You have removed a man whose squandered the oil wealth of his country on expansionist dreams and killing his own citizens. Saddam's version of Baath ideology is expansionist and perverts Islam, like Osamma's fundamentalism, which only further fuels the so-called "clash of civilizations." You can tell me Saddam is not very religious himself, but I would tell you that Osamma doesn't come across as all that religious either.

3) You have removed a major backer of the dealth cult in Palestine which sends the best and brightest minds to blow themselves up while the cowardly old "spiritual" leaders chow down on figs all day long.

4) You create a situation of increased security for Israel which will enable us to force them to conceed settlements to the newly created Palestine.

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Canada's Military

Contributor: fatmomma

Date: 2003-04-16 23:18:30


1 The Middle East appears to have a free press in Al Jazeera. (if those 3 attack on journalists were not proven to have been done for protection ; perhaps we can question the real freedom of press in the USA. I noticed yesterday the incident at Mosul quickly disappeared from news sites except Britains.
2. There is questions on whether these attacks on Iraq is evidence of Bush's expansionist ideas risking the lives of young military personnell.
3. Bush sends his young to do his dirty work while he and the military leaders are not there under fire.
4. Israel is equally responsible for
attacks between them and the Palestinians. They have killed 3x as many Palestinians as Israelis have been killed. They have recieved money, arms and backing from the USA to do their killings.
%. I do hope that you are correct and that Bush will force Israel to cooperate with the Palestinians and that the two peoples can live in relative peace and harmony. It seems that the Palestinian situation is a major stumbling block to getting Middle East countries to calm down and not feel they are being discriminated against.

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