Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)


Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 01:19:43 GMT


yes, yes, yes!!! i still, believe, however, that the goal was stability in
the region, as dictated by the us, which is what we've got, right? of
course gen bowell doesn't give a rat's ass how much it costs or how many
iraqis starve, as long as the american economy is humming. as a matter of
fact enforcing the no-fly zone and paying for everything that goes along
with it is just great for all the companies that have to make planes and
bombs and whatnot. it's well known that a war is good for the economy, so
what could be better than a permanent low-level war? meanwhile with so much
us muscle being flexed in the region no one wants to shit sideways for fear
we'll bomb their toilets out from under them. so the oil keeps flowing, the
jones' are happy, everythings peachy. that's the whole point. if we had
offed saddam, set up someone else, and pulled out and left all those
sovereign nations to their own devices, who knows what might have happened
next?

From: Sean Draine <seandr@microsoft.com>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: "'bananafish@roughdraft.org'" <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Subject: Re: unfair to bush (yeah, so?)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:59:46 -0800

andy:
"furthermore saddam husseins head on a stick was almost certainly never a
goal of powell or any other strategist in that war."

Actually, George Sr. originally wanted to march into Baghdad and end the
regime. Powell, however, convinced him to pursue the long term strategy of
starving the population to death through economic sanctions, setting up a
'deadly weapons show and tell' program by which the enemy would provide
guided tours of its secret bombs, and setting up a no-fly zone that only
costs a few hundred million a year to enforce. The most brilliant aspect of
this strategy, however, is it's conclusion. It's so brilliant, in fact, that
not even Powell seems able to articulate just what it is. With any luck, in
another 50 years when Saddam and his offspring are dead, the younger
banananfishers will get to see how this brilliant strategy ends.

-Sean
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