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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Drew, you have fallen into the track of "who writes the history."

There weren't 10s of thousands killed in the WTC.

Second, the UN inspectors said there weren't any WMDs.

And, by what right do we have to tell other countries what to do.  Seems to 
me that the U.S. uses terrorist tactics on a routine basis.

I find it amazing how soon folks forget that the U.S. put Sadam in power. 
The U.S. told him to go ahead and do the majority of things he did against 
other countries.  There are plenty of pictures of ol' Rummy shaking his hand 
and inspecting the troops in Iraq while they are dropping bombs on Iran.

Sadam was great as long as he didn't offend someone by building a hotel with 
a certain someone's face on the floor to be walked on.  He did our dirty 
work in the Middle East and kept the reins in on Iran.

And I'm still amazed at how many people jump back and forth from bin Laden 
to Sadam as though they were somehow related.

*Some* innocents?  Gee, shades of "acceptable collateral damages."  Kinda 
sounds like Israel.  Oops, we killed a young American, we didn't see her. 
Oops, we shot up a journalist.  Oops, we bombed a school.

And can someone please explain to me why we, the U.S., supposedly one of the 
best of everything countries in the world, hasn't managed to fix the 
electrical in Iraq even though we've supposedly been trying for how many 
years now and how many BILLIONS of dollars?  Took us a few minutes to blow 
the hell out of it but in YEARS we can't fix it.  Oh well, why am I 
surprised.  Look at NOLA.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DSanner106 AT aol.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Who attacked whom? (was: It's almost over)


> All true, Drew.
>
> As it is also true  that we told Sadaam Hussein we were going to
> invade. How  many Iraqis have we slaughtered? How many Americans have
> we sacrificed? By your standards, and I agree with them, we, too, are
> criminals. I am still waiting for  judgement.
>
> Atonement was the wrong word. I would rather say  we have much to learn.
>
>
>
> I do also prefer the word learn over atonement. Countries as people are at
> their most
> dangerous when they think they have nothing left to learn from their
> mistakes.
>
> yes, in both cases we gave if - then scenerios and followed through. If 
> you
> don't pull your invading forces out of Kuwait we will come in, and if you
> don't  allow the weapons inspectors you agreed to host back into Iraq we 
> will come
> in.  He made his choice in both instances. That is to myself a primary
> difference  here. He also was violating UN directives in both instances 
> supported by
> the  member nations of the UN. To equate actions sanctioned  by a world
> governing body with the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people 
> going to
> work in the WTC, a glorified office building still does not make sense.
>
> We attacked a standing army after declaring and although as in all war, 
> some
> innocents were killed, they were never the target. The terrorists target
> civilians, daycare centers, hospitals trains, buses etc, looking for 
> defenseless
> targets. People who can't shoot back. The ultimate in cowardice. This
> difference  in ideologies is why we have such a tough time understanding 
> them and
> they have  a tough time understanding us.
>
> Drew
>
>
> In a message dated 12/4/2008 4:25:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:
>
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