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Subject: Re: Why the sudden push to get Saddam?


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Alan
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Date Posted: 09:45:41 09/17/02 Tue
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: Why the sudden push to get Saddam?" on 22:59:12 09/16/02 Mon

>Chretien's analysis (and I didn't see the interview,
>or hear the question posed to be fair) is facile and
>unbecoming a head of state, IMO.

"Facile" is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I think there are some truths that are simple and straightforward--and usually not said. It's surprising from a Western head of state, but hardly "unbecoming," IMO.

>Well DUH poverty breeds discontent. But let's put the
>blame for that poverty squarely where it belongs: on
>the shoulders of Islamic state leaders.
>
>Astrid

No, I think it belongs mostly on the shoulders of the rich Western neocolonial nations.

Alan

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