Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:29:03 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <427130000.1001716143@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BB42B36.7E66988D@mindspring.com> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926204026.D10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB42B36.7E66988D@mindspring.com>
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--On Friday, September 28, 2001 00:48:06 -0700 Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> For further reading, see >> http://members.tripod.com/~NH_PEACE_ACTION/Dispell_myths.htm >> >> I don't know about everything listed there, but from what I've read in >> various places before, what they say about the food situation is >> substantially true, and so is what they say about Saddam Hussein's >> spending on public infrastructure and improving the lives of his >> people. The same is true of Gadhafi in Libya, by the way. And >> neither of them is an Islamic fundamentalist. It doesn't mean they're >> nice guys, but there are far uglier people in that neighbourhood. > > If the sanctions are so problematic, there is an easy way to > end them: Saddam the great humanitarian could step down. Saddam's a very popular leader in Iraq. His people think he does a good job of standing up to US oppression. The people don't want him to step down, it's the US that wants that and about the only support they have in that view is the UK. All the other allies from the Gulf war gave up supporting the US' crusade against Saddam a long time ago. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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