re: and so it starts.....the americans are the rea Daveyou seem...

re: and so it starts.....the americans are the rea Dave

you seem to be afflicted by the paranoia of the self righteous. There are more than just a few people who hold grave concerns as to the possible ramifications of an attack by the West on another country; history has shown repearedly that all past exercises as failures.



http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/28/1043534055296.html


The warpath: beat a retreat not an advance, Australia
January 29 2003


Does anyone seriously believe that Iraq constitutes the greatest problem confronting the world? What about Israel and the Palestinians, for starters? Not to mention the countless millions suffering poverty, starvation and indescribable hardship in so many parts of today’s world.

Yet the US and its two allies are spending billions assembling troops, warships, missiles and goodness knows what in the Persian Gulf and around Iraq. Just imagine if all these billions could be directed to help relieve the suffering in at least some parts of our poverty-ridden world.

I am old enough to remember that in 1939 we in Australia were suffering drought, heatwaves, bushfires and the naked aggression of Adolf Hitler. In 2003 we have drought, heatwaves, bushfires and George Bush, certainly the most belligerent US president in my now long memory. It makes one wonder if Washington needs a regime change as much as Baghdad and if it is Bush who should be pushed into exile - ideally in Iraq, where he could carry out his own personal weapons inspections, aided perhaps by the leaders of one or two of his few allies.

John Valder, Former NSW & federal president of the Liberal Party, Bayview, January 27.