Anthony
Heh, I'm sorry, I'm ROTFLMAO! Channelling a book blurbed by Richard Perle, "Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, " by Laurie Mylroie, who had a bestseller co-written w/Judith Miller in Gulf War I, "I have here in my hands a list of 205 terrorists..." (My allusion for those under 30, to Joe McCarthy speech in West Virginia launching his crusade.) NO< I think, Myrloie, Perle, Wolfowitz, and the militarists here http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=today at CSP are nuts and have not a scintilla of evidence of operational or any other links between Al-Quaeda and the Ba'athist regime. I've been reading a bit on terrorism, from left (Richard Falk) to Right (Walter Laqueur), and no one except far right ideologues and Bush admin. loons says so.
Anthony>...How on earth would any decent human being celebrate or even promote the chemical bombing of Israel, knowing fully well that that would give Israel the needed excuse to nuke Iraq -- and the Palestinians as well -- from the face of the earth??? Especially considering that the main result of the Palestinian leadership's overtures toward Saddam was that their people were exiled from Kuwait after the first Gulf War and persecuted immensively???
And exactly WHICH Palestinians were congratulating Saddam?? Islamic Jihad?? Hamas??? Hizbullah??? Those who were suffering tremendously in the Occupied Territories??? I know of NO non- fundamentalist Palestinian organization or individual who even hinted at supporting Saddam or the invasion of Kuwait; if you know of one, Michael, please tell us.
The oppressed, are hardly ever angels. Only liberals expect those resisting intolerable conditions to turn the other cheek. I don't expect, any sector of the Palestinian resistance, secular or Islamist, to be immune in the least, to what conditions of war and poverty, always creates. Which is a dehumanization of the Enemy. If you think the CNN footage of celebrating Palestinians in '91 and 9/11, are a hoax...well, I dunno how to prove it except one of trademarkeed URL pastiches, which will come later. (After, I posted the post you are replying to I thought. Will, someone disbelieve my contention? I was going to check some books at the SFPL, like Karsh and Freedman on the Gulf War, anything I could find by, say, Dilip Hiro, to balance what Karsh sez since he is a neo-con anatagonist of Benny Levy and Avi Shlaim. Guess, I'll have to tomorrow morning.
URL's later though.
This, btw, is a vwery good leftist media critique, "Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare, " by Richard Keeble, 1997. Michael Pugliese