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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:22:41PM -0400, trekkie AT spamcop.net wrote:
> Quoting "David R.Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>:
> 
> > and now we are looking at footing the bill for a trillion dollar
> > Economic Stimulus package to the country we just destroyed.  please
> > tell me there is some freaking Leprechaun and Gold at the end of this
> > Black Rainbow.
> 
> This is the problem I had with the war. We *have* to rebuild Iraq now
> that we destroyed it no matter who is in office.

We destroyed Iraq? That's news to me. I thought it was the Ba'ath Party
and thirty years of despotic rule that destroyed Iraq. Sure, there were
the UN-imposed sanctions after the first time Hussein tried to invade
Kuwait (and lost at great cost), and the millions dead after he tried to
invade Iran (and lost at far greater cost), but come on - the recent
unpleasantness killed what, a couple of thousand people? And the
infrastructure destroyed since the war far outweighs the damage done by
coalition troops. Or are you talking about the government?

I agree we need to follow through and help the Iraqi moderates build a
stable government, and one way to keep the hardliners out of power is to
make everyone else reasonably happy and prosperous. But we didn't
destroy Iraq, the country. They did that quite handily on their own.

Steve

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