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Re: What about the first?
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Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:48:42 GMT
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> Pedro, you are missing the point. Even if SH isn't crazy enough to fire off a
> nuke at an enemy (which is in and of itself debatable), he's smart enough and
> perfectly willing to give one to a looney like OBL who IS looney enough to
> denotate one (thus SH having his dirty work done for him).
SH does not have a nuke. If he did, do you think he'd trust OBL with it???
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> Mike's point is that the enemy is not a nation state, but rather
> _territory-less_ religious fanatics from (and supported by) many states. The
> only way to prevent terrorism is to deal HARSHLY with states who would and do
> support them.
Is Bush not a "religious fanatic". Does he not support terrorism? Why else
would he have "pardoned" Orlando Bosch? See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,851879,00.html
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According to the justice department in George Bush Sr's administration, Bosch
had participated in more than 30 terrorist acts. He was convicted of firing a
rocket into a Polish ship which was on passage to Cuba. He was also implicated
in the 1976 blowing-up of a Cubana plane flying to Havana from Venezuela in
which all 73 civilians on board were killed.
[later]
Bosch's release, often referred to in the US media as a pardon, was the result
of pressure brought by hardline Cubans in Miami, with Jeb Bush serving as their
point man. Bosch now lives in Miami and remains unrepentant about his militant
activities...
[later]
Other Cuban exiles involved in terrorist acts, Jose Dionisio Suarez and
Virgilio Paz Romero, who carried out the 1976 assassination of the Chilean
diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, have also been released by the current
Bush administration.
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Perhaps you should sort out your own backyard before worrying about
hypothetical threats?
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> The people of Iraq should be asking themselves: Do I *really* support Saddam
> Hussein enough to undertake a war which I am sure to loose at a possibly
> horrific cost? Because the fact is that if SH were to be deposed (internally),
> the case for war against Iraq would be largely defused.
Remember what happened the last time... we let them down badly.
Scott A
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| (...) Pedro, you are missing the point. Even if SH isn't crazy enough to fire off a nuke at an enemy (which is in and of itself debatable), he's smart enough and perfectly willing to give one to a looney like OBL who IS looney enough to denotate one (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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