NP: Iraq

[Otto]

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From: "s~Z" <keithsz at concentric.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: NP: Iraq


> >>>Interesting too that in Robert's post he feels it necessary to state
> that Iraqis are actually human beings!<<<
>
> Because there has been an imbalance of attention on this list regarding
the
> situation in Iraq. Where were all of the peaceniks on this list before the
> US got involved? Why no spams about the atrocities against the Iraqi
people
> at the hands of Sadaam? Why no application of Pynchon's writings to Sadaam
> and others all over the globe? When someone works as hard as TRP to
capture
> the complexity of life, it is annoying to see it all trivialized in ways
> that even Pynchon makes fun of.
>

I cannot remember having read anything of Pynchon where he's talking about
minor terrorist regimes.

But "before the US got involved" is an interesting formulation. May I remind
you that the US has been involved for a long time, as long as Saddam was
"our" man against the fundamentalist Iranian Mullah-regime. It would be nice
to know what special envoy Rumsfeld had to talk to Saddam in 1983. Nobody in
the US-government was interested in the fate of the gassed Kurds before
Saddam became an enemy, they even helped him committing his crimes. All
these bad guys (for example the Taliban) only became interesting when they
openly turned out to be anti-Semitic. If there's proof that Iran is
financing Hamas a war against the Mullah-regime is only a question of time
because now they definitely will try to get weapons of mass destruction to
safeguard themselves against any US-attack. It would be great to see them go
before they are capable of blackmailing the whole world.
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/hamas.htm

Otto