Iraq's threat to peace and security

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Here's an interesting fact: Iran and Kuwait, Iraq's two worst enemies, are
against a unilateral attack on Iraq by the United States.

My Iranian ex-husband's not, though.  He wants us to go get Saddam, and then
go get his Mullahs after that.  He sees this impending war as a ray of hope.
I told him it's easy for him to say with his Citizenship safe and sound, but
the poor people in the region might feel differently.  But he was in Iran
just last week for pistachio harvest, and he says that's the sentiment of
all the people he talked to.  Hardly sounds anti-American.  Then again, he
doesn't mingle in radical Islamic circles.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: re: Iraq's threat to peace and security


>
>
> That's word play. Iraq is a threat to peace and security. We're talking
> about Iraq, the nation that had a long and bloody war with Iran and used
> WMD in that war. Iraq is the same nation that invaded Kuwait and burned
> the place up on the way out. Iraq is the same nation that used WMD to
> kill 5,000 Kurds. The same leadership is still in place. Iraq is a
> threat to international peace and security. Let's admit that because
> it's a fact. Effective policy must be governed by facts, not word play.
> Of course the Bush administration and the Congress are not playing with
> words so much as the facts. The US,
> its current Administration, the Congress, the Military want war with
> Iraq. To stop them we can't play with words or the facts.