nacer@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdenacer Moussaoui C.) (01/21/91)
The Demagogue President. There have never been more hope for world peace hovering over the horizon than in this year. President Bush, a man of impulsive bold actions, wants to spoil this rare moment of gentleness. He is ready to flex his muscles only against small countries. When it comes to big ones he shrinks; precisely he closes his eyes. He magnifies his future victims. He blows them out of proportions. Take for instance Iraq. There are thirteen million people mostly peasants chocked in a land locked in a desert. This is what was crafted by the British intrigues from an empire that stretched from the Atlantic to the far reaches of the Indian Ocean. This is Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilization and technology. This is the country of the great emperor Harun El-Rachid for whom the famous "One Thousand And One Nights Stories" where written. Iraq went to war with Iran over some islands that where taken by the soldiers of the infamous Shah. Iraq resisted during eight years of sufferings and sacrifice. That war between two neighbors was entertained mainly by American arms because the US government wanted revenge for the American embassy spies trapped like nasty rats in Teheran. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait financed the holocaust. There was more than two million dead and wounded between the two unfortunate countries. The hawks in Israel were feasting as long there was war. That was disclosed by the officials of that country in American newspapers. The end of the war found Iraq economically bankrupt, but with one million soldiers strong. Can you see the US with thirty million people in arms? The sheikh of Kuwait was already pressing hard for payments of bills supposed contracted during the war. The only possible serious activities where military ones, including military scientific research. All countries are doing it. President Bush is calling President Saddam worse than Hitler. This is an insult to the spirit of the millions who died in the concentration camps. Did Saddam write a Mein Kampf? Is his Baath party equivalent to the Nazi party? Does he have SS troops burning non Arabs? Of course non of these terrifying things happily exist in Iraq. Bush is singling out Iraq for possessing chemical weapons and doing research in nuclear armaments. Doesn't the US have the biggest stock pile of chemical, biological, nuclear weapons, and major advances in SDI research? Is France disarming its Force de Frappe? How about Britain, China, India Israel? Isn't Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, Argentina, and most other countries doing the same? Iraq did gas some of its enemies; so did the US in Vietnam. Iraq didn't explode a nuclear device ; Uncle Sam did twice on Japan without hesitation, and accidently on its own citizens. Didn't we hear recently on the mass media that the US might bomb Baghdad with nuclear weapons? Does Iraq have till now a chemist, a physicist, a mathematician, an engineer a scientist that Nazi Germany had? Does Iraq have the equivalent of an Heidelberg, or Max Planck institut? Does it have a Krupp iron works? Does Iraq manufacture massive panzers? None of these of course. So how can the grave and irresponsible accusation be true? Bush is confusing the dragonfly with the real dragon. Mister Bush should go back to school to study the art of concrete world history and leave the wild craft of propaganda and demagogy which doesn't suite any serious American in general, nor any respectful American president in particular.
amit@neptune.Berkeley.EDU (Amit Gupta) (01/21/91)
Regardless of the merits of the action in the Gulf, I am sure all of us will agree that this is NOT the approprate news-group for discussing the action in the Persian Gulf. Such material should be posted in alt.desert-shield. Amit Amit Gupta Deptt of EECS : CS Division U C Berkeley
vlad@erg.sri.com (beyer) (01/22/91)
In article <1991Jan20.180209.2288@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> nacer@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Abdenacer Moussaoui C.) writes: > > The Demagogue President. Does anybody filter the postings to this group? How did this piece of propaganda get here? Just because the arguments in the posting are intractible, doesn't mean that it should be considered a piece on intractibility theory :-)
traff@ecrc.de (Jesper Larsson Traff) (01/23/91)
Mr. Moussaoui - please keep this propaganda crap ("The demagogue
President") out of this serious newsgroup!!
Yours,
Jesper L. Traff