Re: an arteest

Daniel -- I'd tend to think that Marx was an intellectual and Hitler was not.
More than that, I'd tend to agree with Robbie's statement...

Reading Marx can be mildly intoxicating. It's sometimes like reading a sharp
mind drunk on anger. Reading _Mein Kampf_ was the apex of tedium for me. I
couldn't finish it. It was too much like beating my head against a brick wall
with every sentence. The mind behind that sounded remarkably rigid to me,
petrified. But it's been over 20 years since I've tried it, so....

Tina -- The US, by the way, never supplied Hussein with chemical weapons. We
supplied him with "dual use chemicals" which, of course, he could use either
to produce chemical weapons, or fertilizer, or pesticide, or whatever.
Critics of US foreign policy tend to play both ends against the middle,
claiming that we have no grounds for war because we can only prove that
Hussein is in possession of dual use chemicals, then turning around and saying
we supplied Hussein with "chemical weapons" in the 80s because we supplied him
with those same dual use chemicals.

You can't believe everything you hear, not even when it's on NPR.

At the time (back in the good old 80s), you may remember (probably not. If
Will was your professor you're too young to remember), the Ayatollah kicked
out our puppet (the Shah. We put that monster in power. We deserve the
hatred Iran pours upon us. In Iraq, on the other hand, the Baath party were
monsters all on their own) and took quite a few US citizens hostage. Carter
tried to rescue them with a few Apache helicopters which crashed into each
other during the mission. By the time Reagan came around I think everyone was
sick of the game and they were released. And there was Reagan's Iran/Contra
affair in an attempt to grease a few palms. At any rate, it's not surprising
to me that we'd want to help Hussein punish Iran during the 80s. It'd be more
surprising if we didn't.

Jim

Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:

> Sources please.
> Daniel
>
> Actually, Saddam's books are more like a Harlequin Romance, only with more
> guns. He doesn't possess the intellectual capacity for a 'Mien Kampfe' OR
> 'Communist Manifesto'. One interesting note, though, while the US was
> backing him during the Reagan years and giving him the chemical/biological
> weapons that Bush is now seeking to destroy, Saddam's Iraq had a higher
> literacy rate than the US and highways second only to Germany.
> "Trivia" Tina

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