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Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Wed Jan 22 06:42:46 PST 2003



> So if that's the standard, what about Israel? Small scale imperialist?
> Check. Crossed borders? Check. Maintained a brutal, illegal occupation for
> thirty years? Check. Aspires to a Middle East empire? Check. Possesses a >
few hundred nuclear bombs and the ability to deliver them? Check.
>
> Joanna

One can oppose Saddam, indeed denounce him and hope he soon falls, and denounce Israel's occupation and contribution to terror through surrogates. Is your mind big enough for that, Joanna? Or are you gonna fall into the old predictable trap of saying, "Well so-and-so does it too! So there!" Israel has nuclear weapons, so let Saddam have some. Hell, al-Qaeda too. Only fair, right?

As bad as Israeli policy is and has been in the territories and in Lebanon, you cannot compare its internal society to that of Saddam's Iraq.

DP



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