To: ray@cs.rochester.edu (1/25/91)

--- You wrote:
	Poor Saddam.  His poor economy is wrecked because of his long
war with Iran.
	A war he started.
And Bush supported Saddam, as did Reagan, which Saddam started. Back
then Iran was the official enemy, and only us radicals mentioned that
Iraq started the war. Only us radicals mention Saddam's viciousness.
Of course, we were called supporters of the Ayatollah for pointing out
US Admin. hypocrisy. Then called pro-Noriega for pointing out CIA
supported thug, turned against him when he no longer supported CIA's
dirty war against Nicaragua.

	A country of only 17 million people in possesion of the
world's fourth largest army
	deserves to have a financial crisis.

The U.S. has a bigger army, and "deserves" (those in power, alas, not
us) a bigger domestic crisis. Consider the following rankings of the
U.S.:

Ranking in:                                             Rank:

Literacy                                                  49th
Infant mortality                                      20th
(The U.S. is the only wetern industrialized country other than South
Africa without a national health care system for all its citizens.)
per capita in prison                                   1st
Debtor nation                                              1st

	Am I supposed to feel bad because they are constantly running
short of money because 					Saddam takes
ALL the money and builds up his military.

That's how militarist bastards (again, supported by Reagan/Bush
despite horrific human rights record, as today in U.S.-supported El
Salvador, Guatemala, etc) like Saddam operate. Boy, can I relate to
what you're saying, running short of money because they take "all" the
money and build up the military; to the tune of some 300,000,000,000
per year, when experts quoted in New York Times (don't have ref. for
this one) say 100 billion more than enough; that's a theft from us to
the military contractors of nearly 200 Billion dollars. Plus of the
300 billion, about 100 went in *this year's* defense budget to defend
Europe against a Soviet invasion. I'm not advocating $0 on European
defense, but 100 billion, after all the changes in east block, "we" go
ahead and keep things at same old (already infalted) levels.

	We are in the this war not for oil or even freedom but to take
out Saddam
So reason THEY gave, for why THEY have sent US to die for THEM, you
agee, are lies.

	before he starts WW3.  Not to say that he may not already have
done so since
	this present war is not over yet.

Let's get one thing staight: Saddam, the bastartd, "started it" in
Kuwait (after all, he would say, the political pressure he put on
Kuwait were given "long enough a chance" and "didn't work"); Bush, the
bastard who will murder 10,000's or 100,000's or middle eastern
civilians and draftees, and probably  100's or 1,000's or Americans,
"started it" in the war on Iraq.

ray
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[included my article re "how joyous"]